Her famous 1958 speech captures why human rights are for every one of us, in all parts of our daily lives: 'Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close ...

H uman Rights Day is celebrated every year on December 10 to honor the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948. This important day reminds us of the basic freedoms and ...

Description: At a moment when the post-World War II international order is changing with uncertain outcome, the future of the international human rights project is in doubt as well. Consensus on a few ...

A human rights group is advocating for the inclusion of Universal Human Rights Education into Ghana's pre-tertiary education curriculum In a proposal sighted by YEN.com.gh, the group intimated ...

NB: Only one of the following three reconciliation-related courses may be counted towards the certificate for a given student: One of the major developments in world history since WW II has been the ...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in December 1948, and the 1991 Windhoek Declaration from Namibia - a global reference for press freedom - have also ...

The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a human rights process in which every country has now had its human rights record reviewed three times since 2008. Discover how UPR was used in the Rwanda case ...

Amnesty International highlighted the shocking reality of the death penalty all over the world as they called for it to be abolished ...

Anastasio Hernández Rojas, a longtime U.S. resident, died in May 2010 after being beaten and repeatedly shocked with a Taser ...