Less than a month before the September 11 terrorist attacks, a United Nations conference in Durban, South Africa, focused on racism, xenophobia, and related forms of intolerance. Leading American ...

Refugees are people who are forced flee their country because of a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social ...

Have ready a copy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, prepared on an overhead transparency. Make copies of Chapter 2, "Safeguarding asylum", from The State of the World's Refugees: Human ...

In this essay from a series on the legacy of Senator Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson, Nicholas Eberstadt offers suggestions about what a Scoop Jacksonian approach in U.S. foreign policy might look today, ...

The New Order National Human Rights Organization will hold a press conference Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. about a controversial lesson at Honey Creek Elementary. A teacher reportedly placed "Whites Only" and ...

Saturday is International Human Rights Day, commemorating the day in 1948 when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The significance of the day and ...

A top Chinese official in Brussels told reporters that China doesn’t need lessons on human rights from the EU. Li Junhua, a director general in the foreign affairs ministry, on Monday (8) said China ...

Every December 10th, international lawyers, governments, and advocacy groups commemorate Human Rights Day. This marks the day in 1948 when, improbably, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was ...

Mexico’s incoming president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, will inherit a human rights catastrophe involving extreme violence by organized crime, widespread abuse by the military, police, and ...

Health and Human Rights explores the reciprocal influences of health and human rights, including the impact public health programs and policies have on human rights, the consequences human rights ...

TODAY, CITY LEADERS CAME TOGETHER TO COMMEMORATE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY, AND THEY ALSO WANTED TO REMIND THE PEOPLE OF PITTSBURGH THAT THE WORK IS FAR FROM DONE. THEY UNDERSTAND THAT NO ONE ...