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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

No one likes or chooses to be a refugee. To be a refugee means more than being simply a foreigner. It means living in exile. According to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, a ...

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 ...

*This brief has been updated to reflect new Concluding Observations made by UN Treaty Bodies as of July 8, 2025. Tax policy is inextricably bound up with governments’ human rights obligations. Under ...

On the occasion of the International Human Rights Day, Ambassador Mumtaz Zahra Baloch participated in a panel discussion on 'Free Flow of ideas and advancing Human Rights: Lessons and Perspectives at ...