Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Although U.S. President Donald Trump has said little or nothing in public about defending human rights and freedoms abroad, both ...

Human rights are not just words on paper. Advocates, social movements and government champions have brought much needed positive changes by pushing for the adoption of international human rights ...

In the spring of 1945, as the Second World War was drawing to a close on the European continent, another significant event was taking place across the Atlantic. Representatives of 50 nations met in ...

Attacks against National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) weaken their ability to fulfill their mandates to protect human rights and hinder access to justice and accountability for all, UN experts ...

Today the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Business and Human Rights, Professor John Ruggie, posted the draft “Guiding Principles for the Implementation of the UN ...

Israel’s assault on Gaza, following Hamas’ attack in October 2023, has become the subject of international legal proceedings and mass protest. Over the past eight months, university students have set ...

Dar es Salaam. Tanzania has reiterated its commitment to upholding human rights for all citizens without discrimination during the 25th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous ...

The motto of the United Nations is “peace, dignity and equality on a healthy planet”. Clearly the present state of the planet is in direct contrast to the UN's motto. The saddest and most disturbing ...

The triumvirate of cloud providers — Amazon, Google, and Microsoft — and a handful of major enterprise software and infrastructure vendors formed the Trusted Cloud Principles initiative to advocate ...

It’s time to change the metric by which much of the world traditionally measures economic wellbeing: gross domestic product (GDP). The drive for steadily higher GDP growth is fueling environmental ...

The ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), the growing criticism towards paternalistic and coercive models of ...