ROME (AP) — The Council of Europe on Saturday defended the independence of the European Court of Human Rights, after nine member states said its interpretation of rights obligations prevented ...

(The Center Square) – The Tennessee attorney general's office will keep the 30 positions allocated to the Human Rights Commission when it takes over the commission's duties on July 1 ...

Mr. Posner is a lawyer and human rights advocate who was the assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor from 2009 to 2013. In the late 1980s, Joseph Nye, the Harvard ...

Kenya has come under renewed international pressure to address a wide range of human rights violations as the United Nations Human Rights Council issues recommendations during the country’s ...

Venezuela’s dictatorship is under more intense global scrutiny this week for both its human rights violations and multi-billion dollar corruption. The global watchdog Human Rights Watch has ...

The reports provide journalists, advocacy groups, businesses, and researchers with factual, objective information on human rights violations that can be used to help understand factors affecting ...

Speakers for the 2025 TIME100 Summit include human rights advocate Yulia Navalnaya; Meghan, Duchess of Sussex; comedian Nikki Glaser; climate justice activist Catherine Colman Flowers; Netflix CEO ...

Also in 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency opened a civil rights ... AL.com last week, adding that she has not received any news recently. Flowers argues that sanitation is a human ...

George Weigel is a distinguished senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington. When Pope Francis was elected on March 13, 2013, the Vatican’s reputation as a forceful ...

Haitian human rights advocate Pierre Espérance told HRW: “Immediate reinforcement of the Haitian Police and MSS with troops, helicopters, and resources is critical. Haitians are in agony without ...

The State Department under Marco Rubio seems to think little of human rights and seeks to change ... Nina Olson, who served as the national taxpayer advocate from 2001 to 2019, told the Post ...

To illustrate this, I highlight the most recent case where a human rights advocate lost his life in unclear circumstances. Molo-based human rights defender Richard Otieno, aka ‘Molo President ...