Just over a year ago, the European Union approved a directive that sought to usher in a new era of human rights protection ...

A new scathing report by the group Human Rights Watch is calling three Florida immigration detention centers degrading and ...

Next week, the United Nations Human Rights Council will vote on renewing the mandate of the independent expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and ...

Greece has suspended the ability for people coming by boat via North Africa to seek asylum –violating their rights, ...

Today the UN Human Rights Council firmly rejected Eritrea’s attempt to end scrutiny of its human rights situation. Council members decisively voted down the Eritrean government’s resolution to ...

An independent investigator is being sanctioned by the United States over her work scrutinizing human rights abuses in the ...

The ICC, which has a mandate to investigate and prosecute some of the most serious crimes under international law, is the ...

This weekend in Hungary’s capital Budapest, Human Rights Watch staff witnessed the city transform—if only for one brilliant afternoon—into a beacon of resistance. Budapest Pride was more ...

Rubio’s plan would shutter most of the State Department’s offices devoted to human rights and lay off an estimated 80% of the DRL staff, most of whom are experts in human rights and democracy.

Volker Türk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, told the U.N. Human Rights Council that conditions in Venezuela have continued to deteriorate at an alarming rate over the past ...

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

The global soccer governing body FIFA’s reported decision to cancel previously planned additional anti-racism and anti-discrimination messaging at Club World Cup venues in the United States ...