Editor’s note: Lisa Ryden is Vice President for Social Sustainability at Tetra Pak, a world-leading multinational food processing and packaging company. She has worked there for almost two decades. We ...

I know what it is like to live under a government for whom human rights means nothing. I grew up under an oppressive regime where speaking out could cost you your freedom, and where torture was a tool ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A local organization recognized International Human Rights Week at the Islamic Center of Rochester. The event featured speakers from the New York State Council of Churches. The goal ...

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 ...

When the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations on Dec. 10, 1948, it laid out the inalienable rights all human beings have. These rights—agreed upon by countries ...

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A coalition of rights groups on Monday urged the UK to incorporate human rights protections before signing a trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), amid documentation of abuses faced ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday that the United Nations Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4) should focus on promoting international tax cooperation to ensure ...

Governments should act on recent political commitments to protect civilians from the bombing and shelling that devastates cities and towns around the world. Civilians make up the vast majority of ...

A group of lawyers and civic organisations have formally asked the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights to issue an advisory opinion on the obligations of African states to protect ...

These are not merely aspirational clauses; they are enforceable rights that form the foundation of Pakistan’s legal order.