Proclaims this Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, ...

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, General Comment No. 1, CRPD/C/GC/1 (Legal Capacity), paragraph 13. The Committee states: “Legal capacity and mental capacity are distinct ...

Human rights, defined as the basic rights and freedoms inherent to all individuals, have evolved considerably in both scope and application in the modern era. Contemporary societies have increasingly ...

The consequences of AI's spectacular advances are infiltrating critical aspects of society. The pressing question we face today is the profound impact that these intelligent entities, despite ...

Human rights violations have impacted some of the largest brands in the last few years, including H&M, Hershey’s and Meta, which have all faced allegations of forced labor or human trafficking.

For the first time in its more than 40-year history, the Human Rights Campaign on Tuesday declared a "state of emergency" for LGBTQ+ Americans, issuing a guidebook alongside the national warning ...

122.6 million people displaced by war, violence and persecution. One story of courage and hope. Behind every statistic are people – men, women, and children – whose stories deserve to be seen and ...

András Léderer from Hungary's oldest and largest human rights group, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, told NPR that the State Department's new policy weakens the position of human rights ...

Every spring, since the late 1970s, the State Department has released the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.This year, those waiting for these documents will have to hold on a bit longer.

Importantly, the United States has only ratified three treaties out of nine core international human rights conventions that have been negotiated and adopted since World War II. The treaties that were ...

On October 18, 2004, President George W. Bush signed into law the North Korean Human Rights Act. The president’s statement, issued on his signing of the law, said the legislation “provides us with ...