The bare power calculations of states’ national security, economic and diplomatic interests still present the primary challenge to compliance with human rights norms. But threats to the international ...

Labour has announced the “biggest cuts to disability benefits on record”, which charities have slammed as a “violation of human rights” that could harm seriously ill and disabled people. As a result ...

The Manitoba government plans to expand the province’s human rights code to cover gender expression. The code already prohibits discrimination based on gender identity, and the NDP government ...

Three Long Island fire departments and their governing fire districts have agreed to pay fines and change policies to settle complaints of unlawful discrimination, according to the New York State ...

Activists and ordinary citizens defending their rights to land and the environment face intimidation, legal harassment, and deadly violence. Human Rights Watch champions human rights law to force ...

People fled in various directions, with children and the elderly caught in the chaos. Human-rights groups and Serbia’s opposition officials are now accusing the government of using a sonic ...

Brittany Coleman, a lawyer with the Office for Civil Rights based in Dallas who was laid off this week, said that with fewer staff members, students with disabilities fighting for accommodations ...

Drawing on data from the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist, Newsweek has created this map to show countries on the Human Rights Watchlist. CIVICUS categorizes civil rights into five distinct levels—open ...

Sixty years later, we are now witnessing the apex of the anti-human rights backlash, heard in President Donald Trump’s absurd claim, echoed by acolytes like Gov. Ron DeSantis, that DEI ...

NEW YORK, March 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights is pleased to announce the appointment of three new members to its board of directors: Andrew Gilmour, former UN Assistant ...

After weeks of lawsuits and human rights criticism, Panama has released dozens of migrants who were held for weeks in a remote camp after being deported from the United States, telling them they ...