Afghanistan remains the only country in the world that prohibits girls and women from getting general education at secondary ...

As Trump attacks civil rights protections, a growing number of progressive parents are opting out of public schools.

Museveni made it explicitly clear throughout the campaigns. If the elections were rigged, ‘they’ would hear from him in his ...

When I first met Amos Oz amid the 1982 Lebanese War, which we both condemned, he was an internationally renowned novelist and ...

Renowned human rights activist, Comrade Obawolu Adedoja Aanu, has died in Lagos. According to sources close to her, Aanu collapsed at the entrance of her ...

In upholding domestic restrictions on such speech, the ECtHR equated insult, defamation and ridicule with hate speech that falls outside the protection of Article 10 of the European Convention on ...

Two-time Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya won a partial victory at the European Court of Human Rights on Thursday in her seven-year legal fight against track and field’s sex eligibility rules.

The United States has sanctioned the United Nations’s special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories over her criticism of Israel.

The independent expert on SOGI issued a statement on the decision, urging that a “rights-based, person-centred approach to gender-affirming care” be upheld. Ahead of the 59th session of the Human ...

Lovaincy said he oversees an investigation division, a human rights accessibility department and a training division that helps train employees on diversity, equity and inclusion.

Rubio’s plan would shutter most of the State Department’s offices devoted to human rights and lay off an estimated 80% of the DRL staff, most of whom are experts in human rights and democracy.

Arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment -- particularly during recent elections -- are among the human rights violations in Venezuela cited in a United Nations ...