I recently had the opportunity to give a presentation to a group of human rights workers during a training at Human Rights Watch. As is always the case when I prepare and deliver a presentation, and ...

“We have to continue walking…We still have to cover a long distance, but we are in the right direction.” The event took place 20 March during the 69th Commission on the Status of Women, a panel of ...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights will mark its 77th anniversary on Dec. 10. The document was adopted by the United Nations on Dec. 10, 1948, thanks in no small measure to the efforts of ...

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - Wednesday marks the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. According to the United Nations, the UN General Assembly adopted the non-legally binding document ...

December marked Universal Human Rights Awareness Month, a global reminder that across borders, cultures and generations we are all human and all equal.

The Canadian lawyer and long-time Amnesty International Canada secretary-general shared six principles for rebuilding ...

As the world marks Universal Human Rights Day on Wednesday, the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta is inviting the public to explore its newly renovated galleries—completely free of ...

Plain cloth police officers arrest a protester along Kenyatta avenue while protesting against the killing of blogger Albert Ojwang' while in police custody, protesters demand immediate resignation of ...

I believe in the cause of universal human rights. The presentation was far-ranging, moving from basic trauma theory, to a discussion of dissociation as a response to distress, moral injury (more on ...