Despite its pervasiveness, forced early marriage has rarely been viewed as a human rights violation in itself. Nonetheless, it violates Article 16 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ...

Director Schriro took office in August, 2003. 15 Ibid. 16 Human Rights Watch telephone interview with Robert D. Myers, General Counsel, Arizona Department of Corrections, March 20, 2006.

Human Rights in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development issued by the OHCHR, states that many of the SDGs relate closely to economic, social and cultural rights. Goal 16 on peaceful and ...

An elderly mother and two grown up girls who were accidentally switched at birth are suing the Norwegian state.

The bill sparked a national debate, but actually brought federal laws up to date with already-established provincial human rights code Nina Dragicevic Passed in June 2017, Bill C-16 has become ...

Legislators from Mexico’s ruling party reelected the head of the National Human Rights Commission on Wednesday despite widespread opposition and her failure to call out the ...

The U.N. Human Rights Office says Hamas and Israeli forces have committed war crimes and should face a "reckoning" for war ...

While there is no word about the probable candidate, there are reports suggesting that prominent activist Adilur Rahman Khan ...

It remains unclear what will become of Beijing's travel ban on Rubio should he become America's next top diplomat.

WASHINGTON, Oct 16 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden joined former Democratic presidents and others to honor longtime human rights advocate and storied political family matriarch Ethel Kennedy ...

Joseph Amon, whose work focuses on neglected diseases and populations, has joined the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health as director of the Center for Public Health and Human Rights. He ...