In the wake of the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti last month, thousands of its countrymen are reversing a trend that has dominated life in developing third world countries for decades—they ...

Communities throughout the country are developing alternative models of mental health crisis response Human Rights Watch, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, and the Center for Racial and ...

Indonesia, as President of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), has reaffirmed its commitment to promoting an ...

Oct. 1 (UPI) --North Korea remains one of the world's most repressive regimes, systematically violating the rights of its 26 million people. For decades, U.S. and allied policy has focused primarily ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A local organization recognized International Human Rights Week at the Islamic Center of Rochester. The event featured speakers from the New York State Council of Churches. The goal ...

Corporate accountability for human rights and the environment, including climate change, remains a key challenge of our times ...

One of the most important intellectual strands in public health over the last century has been the development of a health and human rights approach. This approach reflects the understanding that ...

How can the United States successfully promote human rights and democracy in the multi-polar and deeply divided world the country now faces? The Reagan administration’s approach, in which I was deeply ...

Carlotta Rigotti, postdoctoral researcher at eLaw—Center for Law and Digital Technologies, and Professor Clare McGlynn of Durham University have co-authored a new article in the Netherlands Quarterly ...

The University of Dayton has a history of focus on human rights. Since 1997, we have held global conferences on emerging human rights and humanitarian issues, and established the Human Rights Center ...

The G-20, a group of nations that account for 80 percent of global GDP and two-thirds of the world’s population, met in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in mid-November amid grave economic and environmental ...