The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the United Nations’ General Assembly in 1948. It was the first attempt to create a global standard of human rights – to define ...

An international human rights body found that in 2010, U.S. Border Patrol agents tortured and killed Anastasio Hernandez ...

Human rights groups have called conditions in the country’s network of migrant detention centers “horrific” and “deplorable.” ...

The Tajikistan government, earlier in the year, chose to cover up an even bloodier prison ... threatening detention conditions. Ignoring Human Rights Watch's request for information and its ...

One of the great achievements of the United Nations is the creation of a comprehensive body of human rights law, a universal and internationally protected code to which all nations and peoples can ...

Given that international human rights law applies during both peacetime and wartime, it covers all circumstances relevant to the use and development of autonomous weapons systems. This report ...