The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the United Nations’ General Assembly in 1948. It was the first attempt to create a global standard of human rights – to define ...

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1965 only accommodates pregnant ... EEOC Vice Chair Jocelyn Samuels explained at the Society for Human Resource Management compliance conference earlier ...

This is the idea behind the concept of a human rights economy, which means putting rights at the heart of economic policymaking. The concept draws from the work of human rights scholars and ...

The Poverty, Inequality and Human Development team conducts research across a wide ... decisions should be centrally involved in forming the policies that affect their rights. This presentation ...

Eliza Campbell is a technology and inequality researcher with Amnesty International, focusing on the human rights implications of emerging technologies. Director of Amnesty International’s ...

South Africa, a nation celebrated for its resilience and historic struggle for equality, continues to face systemic human ...

Canadians' top human rights concerns are about censorship, inequality and racism, suggests a survey commissioned by the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, while access to health care and education ...

International human rights law lays down the obligations of Governments to act in certain ways or to refrain from certain acts, in order to promote and protect human rights and fundamental ...

In an era of compounding challenges that pose significant risks to societies worldwide – particularly rising economic inequality, climate change and biodiversity loss, and rapid technological ...

Advocating for the rights of people forced to flee and those denied a nationality. Citizens normally look to their own governments to guarantee their human rights and physical ... characteristics can ...