Raise awareness of human rights in your classroom with the following educational activities and materials. Download our pack of ten interactive lesson activities to help pupils understand their own ...

The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is an international human rights treaty between the 47 states that are members of the Council of Europe (CoE) - not to be confused with the European ...

Two successive terms of U.S. membership on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), before the mandatory one-year hiatus, have improved the body’s performance in several ways. These improvements ...

A heated First Amendment debate is raging across the country over the free speech rights of green card and visa holders ... and “fliers with the logo of Hamas” as the behavior for which ...

Human Rights Watch [1] welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (the “Committee”) in advance of its upcoming review of Canada.

A child is killed in Gaza every 45 minutes. That is an average of 30 children killed every day over the past 535 days. My best friend blushed easily, loved our Gaza neighbourhood, and hoped to ...

Signs and posters held by attendees provided clues about the reason for the rally: “Disabled & Proud,” “Disability Rights Are Human Rights,” and “Dignity Not Dependence.” A young woman from the ...

Erdogan, critics say, is also laying the ground work for a fresh assault on minority rights. Kerem Dikmen, a Human Rights Program Coordinator at Kaos GL, a Turkish LGBTQ+ group, said the ...

Two years after the Suffolk County Human Rights Commission began monitoring the police department’s Internal Affairs investigations, the agency reviewed more than 500 police misconduct ...

Throughout the years, the transition to a green economy has become increasingly progressive and successful across the globe, with the business community playing significant roles to advance ...