Whichever candidate Americans elect president on November 5 has a unique opportunity to reignite the global human rights movement, a drive that has stalled and been in decline for 20 years. The key is ...

Advocacy overreach has eroded American foreign policy and its ability to make concrete advances in human rights abroad. Editor’s Note: This article is part of the symposium “Human Rights in the Trump ...

Human Rights Watch mourns the loss of Jimmy Carter, who made trailblazing contributions to the human rights movement during his US presidency and long afterward. Carter created a foreign policy agenda ...

Palestinian academic Zeina Jallad, who has called for expelling Israel from international organizations, poised for special rapporteur post, against vetting group's recommendation The post UN Rights ...

Human rights movement Amnesty International has urged Donald Trump and the US government to take action following “unlawful arrests and deportations”, which undermine “the rights to liberty and ...

Despite years of internal turmoil and changes, Open Society Foundations (OSF) want those in the human rights sector to know their movements will still receive support from the organization, its ...

(New York) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) is seeking a new Executive Director to lead the organization’s global human rights work and advance its endeavor to secure justice, dignity, and freedom for all.

Muriel Nolen is director of the Tennessee Human Rights Commission. Dec. 10 marked International Human Rights Day. The day the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the United ...

(RNS) — A chance encounter with the son of one of the great Jewish moral heroes of the last half century. Few people think of him now, and therein lies the story. “Yes,” he replied. “My father was ...

Climate change and environmental destruction are becoming increasingly central to the human rights movement. Droughts, toxic pollution, water shortages, desertification, severe storms and related ...

The fight for women’s right to vote in elections is known as the ‘suffragette movement’. By the end of the 19th century, this had become a worldwide movement, and the words ‘feminism’ and ‘feminist ...

Editor’s note: This story is part of As Equals, CNN’s ongoing series on gender inequality. For information about how the series is funded and more, check out our FAQs. Over the past several decades, ...