Latin America's top human rights court has issued a groundbreaking advisory opinion linking states’ human rights obligations ...

Venezuela’s ruling party-controlled National Assembly has declared Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for ...

Arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment -- particularly during recent elections -- are among ...

Earlier in his career as a senator, now-Secretary of State Marco Rubio positioned himself as a champion of strong ...

Civil and political freedoms in Venezuela have sharply deteriorated over the past year, according to the United Nations’ top ...

Employers that defend against human rights complaints often find themselves grappling with pleadings and submissions that ...

A well-known Toronto television personality says she’s reached a settlement with Bell Media in response to a human rights complaint, in which she alleged “a systemic pattern” of racism, sexism and ...

Human rights obligations do not apply to national governments alone. There are dozens of self-identified “ human rights cities” in the United States—from Mountain View, Cali ...

This brief is based on an extensive analysis of how human rights treaty bodies have engaged with individual states’ ...

Nothing can happen until a complaint is filed,” said Jason Burkholder, who chairs a Pennsylvania Human Rights Commission's ...

The Venezuela government-allied National Assembly unanimously declared United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ...