The event took place 20 March during the 69th Commission on the Status of Women, a panel of experts discussing those women who helped draft and adopt the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

I oversee Human Rights Watch’s work on El Salvador and have traveled to the country several times, most recently in 2024. I provide this declaration based on my personal knowledge and experience.

Swiss Government, host cities, Swiss Football Association and UEFA unite to ensure a welcoming environment for everybody at this summer's tournament in Switzerland. The Swiss federal government ...

The president’s broad authority raises serious concerns about the durability of the rule of law and human rights protections unless clear safeguards are put in place. The declaration justifies ...

Granville Sentinel columnist Jeff Gill examines the meaning behind "unalienable rights" in the Declaration of Independence.

Addressing the 58th regular session of the UN Human Rights Council, Arindam Bagchi, India's permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, said, "As India was mentioned by name, let me begin by ...

(photo credit: Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo) US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday he had signed a declaration to expedite delivery of approximately $4 billion in ...

“The declaration of a State of Emergency in Rivers State is premature and should have been a last resort. President Tinubu has not fully explored all available options before making this ...

The South-South Governors’ Forum has expressed strong reservations over the Federal Government’s declaration of a six-month state of emergency in Rivers State, noting that the political ...

It is an agreement that sets out thirty human rights that everyone in the world has. The declaration is not a set of laws but many countries have used it to make their own laws about human rights.