Human rights defender Tasleema Akhter told the UNHRC about a growing contrast between PoJK and Indian Jammu and Kashmir. She ...

A new study by the University of Portsmouth calls for human rights to be at the heart of any economic development. The researchers highlight how international investment law predominantly supports a ...

Ambassador Irene Zubaida Khan, Bangladesh's permanent representative to the United Nations, has called for human rights to be ...

December's Human Rights Week is approaching.Lesson plans for human rights education, talks for homeroom activities, and how ...

(Seville) – The United Nations conference on financing for development should help pave the way for meaningful progress on improving international tax cooperation to benefit everyone’s human rights, ...

A general election in Germany is expected in February 2025. In December 2024, Human Rights Watch wrote to political parties in Germany sharing an election briefing that sets out key priorities and ...

On 10 December 1948, a fledgling United Nations took a momentous step. In adopting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it laid down a promise of a world to be rebuilt—after the horrors of ...

The seventy-fifth anniversary of the UDHR is a moment of both reflection on the past and of aspiration for the future. As an international instrument of governance, only the UN Charter could be ...

Human rights advocates have called for urgent action to protect communities facing displacement from their ancestral land in Masvingo Province warning that development projects must not come at the ...

Our new US corporate human rights index examines the human rights policies and commitments of 54 US companies in the ...

How a pioneering effort to confront the past can help shape a more inclusive, democratic and socially just future.

After over two decades of incomplete but overall significant progress on corporate respect for human rights, we are at a ...