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The goal of the US State Department’s reorganization is “America First.” Does that mean human rights last, or not at all? @hrw @astroehlein’s Daily Brief: ...

Latin America's top human rights court has issued a groundbreaking advisory opinion linking states’ human rights obligations ...

In many ways, the place of human rights in US foreign policy is simply returning to its pre-World War II norm. Editor’s Note: This article is part of the symposium “Human Rights in the Trump Era.” The ...

The US is imposing sanctions against a senior UN official focused on the human rights of Palestinians, US Secretary of State ...

The American people are sovereign, and their borders should be secure from foreign power or control. The UN’s broken human rights apparatus is largely irrelevant to the new administration.

US drones operated from Germany fly attacks in Yemen. Three Yemenis claim their rights under German law were violated, but ...

Their study gives us one of the clearest pictures we have of the massive human rights crisis ongoing in the country’s prisons, combining a thoroughgoing review of government data with surveys ...

Human rights defenders rallied on Thursday to support the top U.N. expert on Palestinian rights, after the United States ...

The change in Administration offers an invaluable time to examine the future of U.S. foreign policy and how democracy and human rights promotion fits into it. This event will discuss the importance of ...

Ms. Kuznetsova and Mr. Storyev are human rights experts who fled Russia. We both grew up in Russia in the early 2000s and lived through the country’s gradual slide into authoritarianism under ...