Human rights are a set of rules that support how all people can be treated equally and with respect. Everyone, everywhere in the world is entitled to human rights. We all have a responsibility to ...

Human Rights Day is marked every year on 10 December. In 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). This document set out, in 30 articles ...

What role should the promotion of democracy and human rights play in U.S. foreign policy? Over the last decade, human rights groups have documented a decline in freedom around the world.