Indonesia chairs UN human rights council for first time: Milestone or empty symbol?

Indonesia will chair the UN Human Rights Council in 2026, hailed by officials as recognition of its international standing, ...
Human Rights Watch

South Korea: Human Rights Issues for New Government

(Seoul) – South Korea’s new government should adopt measures to address human rights problems in the country and abroad, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to President Lee Jae-myung. It is ...
Human Rights Watch

After 5,000 Days of Arbitrary Detention, Bahrain Must Immediately Release Danish-Bahraini Citizen and Human Rights Defender Abdulhadi al-Khawaja

Today, December 16, 2024, Danish-Bahraini human rights defender Abdulhadi al-Khawaja has endured 5,000 days of arbitrary detention in Bahrain. We, the undersigned, condemn Bahrain for the arbitrary ...
Jurist

Geneva dispatch: UN Human Rights Committee session on Pakistan encourages collaboration on problems, but does not guarantee remedies

Last Thursday, October 17, the 142nd session of the UN Human Rights Committee was held in Geneva, to review the human rights record of Pakistan. A handful of students at the Geneva Academy, including ...
Forbes

Whatever Happened To Human Rights?

U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un talk before a meeting in the Demilitarized Zone on June 30, 2019, in Panmunjom, Korea. Human rights issues—from equal treatment for ...
Reuters

How AI is helping companies zero in on human rights risks

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. AI can flag high-risk supply chain links based on location or sector Altana uses procurement data to map global supply ...
Times Union

Auditors found lost human rights cases in file labeled 'Twilight Zone'

State comptroller's office releases audit that reveals systemic problems at New York Division of Human Rights, including massive backlog An audit released Thursday by the state comptroller's office ...
The Conversation

The UN says Australia violated human rights law, but it’s unlikely to change the way we treat refugees

Sarah Moulds receives funding from the Australian Research Council and has previously received funding from the Law Foundation of South Australia. She is the volunteer Director of the Rights Resource ...
The Hill

Trump’s State Department cuts human rights, redefines humans, reshapes US values

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 ...
The New York Times

Trump Is Destroying a Core American Value. The World Will Notice.

Mr. Posner is a lawyer and human rights advocate who was the assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor from 2009 to 2013. In the late 1980s, Joseph Nye, the Harvard political ...
Aclu.org

The Targeted Chaos of Trump’s Attacks Against International Human Rights Law and Justice

In just one week, President Donald Trump has launched the most systemic and aggressive assault on human rights in U.S. presidential history. While the first Trump administration made similar attempts ...