The political head of the body that oversees the European Convention on Human Rights has told the BBC that it is "absolutely ...

The Trump administration is substantially scaling back the State Department's annual reports on international human rights to remove longstanding critiques of abuses such as harsh prison conditions, ...

The Council of Europe’s secretary general Alain Berset told the BBC he was open to engage on migration issues over the treaty ...

Joseph Amon, director of the Health and Human Rights Division at Human Rights Watch, gave a lecture Tuesday about his work in non-communicable diseases and how human rights arguments can support ...

Ms. Callamard is the secretary general of Amnesty International. Mr. Borello is the acting executive director of Human Rights Watch. When the world emerged from the horrors of World War II and vowed ...

International human rights law lays down the obligations of Governments to act in certain ways or to refrain from certain acts, in order to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms of ...

The United Nations human rights chief says the Trump administration "must halt" strikes on alleged drug boats to prevent ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Human rights scandals have marred World Cup tournaments for years, but FIFA is testing a new protocol requiring all host committees to develop action plans to protect human rights for ...

In "The Human Rights Sequence Theory of Atrocity: A Comparative Analysis," the researchers use data from annual human rights ...

A small group of countries led by China and Russia has repeatedly tried to block funding for human rights-related work at the ...

When the world emerged from the horrors of World War II and vowed “never again,” nations laid the foundation for the system of international justice that now exists to address the planet’s worst ...