The U.N.’s top human rights body has agreed to set up an ongoing probe of human rights violations in Afghanistan under the Taliban, including against women and girls, in a measure pushed for by the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr Ewelina U Ochab is a Forbes contributor, lawyer, and author. Ahead of the 60th session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, ...

Sanctions on small human rights groups are the latest Trump attack on global efforts to protect civil liberties.

Paank, the Baloch National Movement’s human rights wing, expressed concern over the ongoing wave of enforced disappearances taking place across Balochistan and Sindh. It gave a call for the immediate ...

A new report has revealed increased violations of human rights by law enforcers and government agencies. It is emerging that human rights defenders are also targeted in continued abuses of human ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration earned condemnation from Amnesty International on Thursday over its leaked plans to downplay human rights violations in countries favored by the American ...

The Palestinian Center For Human Rights – PCHR: In April 2025, the Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF), and Israeli settlers continued their crimes and violations of human rights and international ...

It wasn’t until recently that experts began referring to the plastics problem explicitly in human rights terms. A primary turning point was a 2021 report from the United Nations’ special rapporteur on ...

The State Department released its long-awaited reports on international human rights Tuesday, and they drastically reduce the types of government repression and abuse that the United States under ...

The Nathaniel R. Jones Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice; the Cornell Law School Gender Justice Clinic, and University of Miami School of Law Human Rights Clinic submit the following ...

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares addressed local community members on Wednesday morning at the Korean Community Center in Alexandria regarding his findings in an investigation into the Thomas ...

Plastics don’t just pose a threat to the marine environment and people’s health; they jeopardize basic human rights. This is the framing that a growing number of legal experts, policymakers, and ...