Venezuela’s ruling party-controlled National Assembly has declared Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for ...

Arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment -- particularly during recent elections -- are among ...

Employers that defend against human rights complaints often find themselves grappling with pleadings and submissions that ...

Civil and political freedoms in Venezuela have sharply deteriorated over the past year, according to the United Nations’ top ...

Earlier in his career as a senator, now-Secretary of State Marco Rubio positioned himself as a champion of strong ...

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has expressed concern over the shrinking space for human rights defence work in the ...

A Palestinian human rights group lost a legal challenge against the U.K. government over supplying Israel with parts for F-35 ...

Human rights obligations do not apply to national governments alone. There are dozens of self-identified “ human rights cities” in the United States—from Mountain View, Cali ...

Osman Kavala, the respected Turkish human rights defender, has been behind bars in Istanbul’s Silivri high security jail for ...

The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has turned over its “Karapatang Pantao 101” module to the Department of Education (DepEd ...

This brief is based on an extensive analysis of how human rights treaty bodies have engaged with individual states’ ...

Venezuela's government-allied National Assembly on Tuesday unanimously declared United Nations High Commissioner for Human ...