Australia’s push for a federal Human Rights Act is stalled by political caution and media hostility. The path forward may ...

The United States has been publishing reports on human rights practices in other countries since 1977. Initially, only countries receiving foreign U.S. assistance were covered. Today, all countries ...

The US State Department on Tuesday released a pared-down version of its annual report meant to catalogue human rights concerns in countries around the world. The report covers the 2024 calendar year – ...

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For nearly half a century, the State Department has reported annually on human-rights conditions in countries around the world. The purpose of this exercise is not to cast aspersions, but to collect ...

Kathryn McNeilly has received funding from the Leverhulme Trust. In a landscape of seemingly increasing global crises, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) celebrated its 75th anniversary ...

The halt to funding for the NED threatens to shut down groups documenting and helping to stop human rights abuses in North Korea. Last week, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in ...