Human rights issues—from equal treatment for minorities to freedoms enshrined in the U.S. Bill of Rights, such as speech, ...

The U.N.’s top human rights body is holding a one-day special session to highlight hundreds of killings at a hospital in ...

Transcript of the keynote address by Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Michael O’Flaherty at 16th Warsaw Human ...

As digital technologies rapidly reshape every aspect of society, the UN’s top human rights official has called for human rights to be placed at the centre of this transformation. Digital technologies ...

The US State Department will focus on “natural rights” like freedom of speech in its next human rights report, a senior State ...

The US State Department has classified NHS-funded abortions as human rights violations. The reclassification emerged on ...

United States–based Trinidadian rapper and singer Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty, popularly known as Nicki Minaj, addressed the United Nations on Tuesday, calling for urgent action to protect Christians in ...

South Korea will co-sponsor an annual UN resolution that raises concerns over North Korea’s human rights situation, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday, defying some expectations that Seoul might ...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has traditionally maintained that freedom of expression safeguards speech that may "offend, shock or disturb." However, its stance on hate speech is not in ...

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 ...