The women’s rights Convention is the fundamental bill of rights for women. It is unique among the existing human rights instruments in that it is exclusively concerned with promoting and ...

Prof. Andrew Thompson, a leading expert in global and imperial history in the Faculty of History at Oxford University, has ...

There are several gaps in the international human rights framework to prevent, sanction and remedy abuses caused by the activities of business enterprises. Access to justice remains particularly ...

The framework laid out by the UN Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery in its Draft Program of Action, filed under the Commission on Human Rights, highlights the key principles of ...

HRTF organized its work around two core pillars: enhancing the understanding and application of human rights principles in the World Bank’s work. The First Annual Forum on Human Rights Defenders in ...

Adopted by all 193 Member States of the United Nations in September 2016, it contains historic and wide-ranging commitments that reaffirm the commitment by Member States to respect the human rights of ...

Human rights are under assault [...] This year’s theme reminds us that human rights are about building the future — right now [...] We must stand up for all rights — always." UN Secretary ...

The bare power calculations of states’ national security, economic and diplomatic interests still present the primary challenge to compliance with human rights norms. But threats to the international ...

An official white paper showcases the region’s progress since 2012, challenging Western ‘oppression’ narratives.

The second session, "International Cooperation and Sustainable Development Goals as a Comprehensive Human Rights Framework," explored the role of international collaboration in advancing human rights ...

The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) underscored the importance of training current and aspiring journalists in reporting human rights, a topic that, it said, most Filipinos ...