A new study by the University of Portsmouth calls for human rights to be at the heart of any economic development. The researchers highlight how international investment law predominantly supports a ...

Uzbekistan will host the Fifth Samarkand Forum on Human Rights on September 28 and 29, with events taking place in Tashkent ...

Leaders warn that most vulnerable people have been left behind, as the right to development has promised more than it has ...

The space for independent human rights work in Tajikistan has shrunk dramatically over the past two decades, leaving the ...

Activist Tasleema Akhtar has addressed the UN Human Rights Council, alleging that Pakistan has failed to provide basic infrastructure and rights to residents in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on Monday called on States and the world’s ‘frontier’ artificial intelligence companies to act urgently to ensure meaningful AI governance keeps pace with its ...

A general election in Germany is expected in February 2025. In December 2024, Human Rights Watch wrote to political parties in Germany sharing an election briefing that sets out key priorities and ...

A leading Canada-based media development organisation, Journalists for Human Rights, has expressed interest in collaborating ...

On 10 December 1948, a fledgling United Nations took a momentous step. In adopting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it laid down a promise of a world to be rebuilt—after the horrors of ...

Sverige har en lång historia av att värna mänskliga rättigheter. Rättigheterna betraktas i dag som en integrerad del av svensk politik. Det gäller inte minst i utrikespolitiken där regeringar oavsett ...

Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum is Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law; and Director, Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights and the Benjamin B. Ferencz Human Rights and ...