Amnesty International and four other human rights organizations on Thursday criticized China’s new judicial guidelines targeting individuals advocating for Taiwan’s independence, calling the ...
The United States has a special interest in safeguarding the integrity of human rights because America is founded on the rights inherent in all persons, and the nation’s political traditions revolve ...
Human rights organizations in Latin America issued a joint statement on Friday, expressing deep concern about the systematic non-compliance of several Latin American states with international human ...
We host a debate between two former officials at the human rights organization Human Rights Watch. Omar Shakir resigned this week after more than a decade as the organization’s Israel and Palestine ...
When Cuba announced in January it would begin releasing 553 political prisoners as a plan negotiated with the Vatican — which also included removing Cuba from the states sponsors of terrorism list — ...
We, the undersigned human rights organizations and networks, urge members of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights ...
Thousands marched through Buenos Aires on Tuesday to mark 50 years since the 1976 military coup that ushered in one of Latin ...
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights said that governments have a duty to more closely monitor firearms manufacturers and ...
John H. Knox has worked with the UN Environment Programme in the development of the Core Human Rights Principles for Private Conservation Organizations and Funders. From 2012 to 2018, he served as the ...
Amid rising tensions, the silence of Iranian human rights groups raises critical questions about their priorities, independence, and future direction. This statement was originally published on ...
Amnesty International pledged to redouble its efforts to expose human rights violations in Russia after Moscow labeled the group an "undesirable organization," effectively outlawing it and making it ...
When I first moved to Thailand in the 1990s to work with a small human rights organization, we waited for the annual U.S. State Department’s human rights report with bated breath. It was not because ...