But that’s precisely why it is the right logo for Human Rights Watch at this time, as it grows to encompass new constituencies, new countries, and new bases of support." ...

North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein has been elected the state’s next governor The Latest The two candidates for Alabama’s 2nd Congressional district made their final campaign pushes ...

This study reviews current practice in the human rights policy field and draws together experiences that form the core of current evidence regarding the contribution of human rights to development.

Two successive terms of U.S. membership on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), before the mandatory one-year hiatus, have improved the body’s performance in several ways. These improvements ...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is generally agreed to be the foundation of international human rights law. Adopted in 1948, the UDHR has inspired a rich body of legally binding ...

There is much disagreement as to whether non-human animals have rights, and what is meant by animal rights. There is much less disagreement about the consequences of accepting that animals have ...

Human rights and environmental protection are closely intertwined, and both are critically dependent on supportive legal opportunity structures. These legal structures consist of access to the courts; ...

Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. Human resources (HR) refers to the people in your organization who work together to achieve its short-term and long-term goals.

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Around the world there is an unprecedented surge in attacks against human rights defenders – people who protect and promote human rights. Amnesty’s new report On the Human Rights Frontline is centred ...

Advocating for the rights of people forced to flee and those denied a nationality. Citizens normally look to their own governments to guarantee their human rights and physical security. When people ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login The past decade has witnessed unprecedented use of the Internet for both advancing and suppressing human rights, giving rise to complex new ...