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

Arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment -- particularly during recent elections -- are among ...

Venezuela’s ruling party-controlled National Assembly has declared Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for ...

Factors including the size and remoteness of its location could mean abysmal conditions and limited access to counsel.

Civil and political freedoms in Venezuela have sharply deteriorated over the past year, according to the United Nations’ top ...

Last week, the United Nations Human Rights Office issued its first ever guidance paper on “transnational repression,” aimed ...

Employers that defend against human rights complaints often find themselves grappling with pleadings and submissions that ...

A well-known Toronto television personality says she’s reached a settlement with Bell Media in response to a human rights complaint, in which she alleged “a systemic pattern” of racism, sexism and ...

Human rights obligations do not apply to national governments alone. There are dozens of self-identified “ human rights cities” in the United States—from Mountain View, Cali ...

This brief is based on an extensive analysis of how human rights treaty bodies have engaged with individual states’ ...

Nothing can happen until a complaint is filed,” said Jason Burkholder, who chairs a Pennsylvania Human Rights Commission's ...

The Venezuela government-allied National Assembly unanimously declared United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ...