Mathias Risse is the Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs and Philosophy and the Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Last spring, Harvard adopted an institutional ...

In October 2023, U.S. president Joe Biden and the late Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) general secretary Nguyen Phu Trong elevated the U.S.-Vietnam relationship to new heights with a Comprehensive ...

Oct. 1 (UPI) --North Korea remains one of the world's most repressive regimes, systematically violating the rights of its 26 million people. For decades, U.S. and allied policy has focused primarily ...

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A burned Lake Zumpango in the State of Mexico gone dry from drought, urbanization and water mismanagement. (William Savinar/Courthouse News) (CN) — The Inter-American Court of Human Rights established ...

Astrid Puentes’s journey from Bogotá to the UN is shaped by a deep awareness of how environmental harm often mirrors social injustice. Early in her legal career, she confronted cases where pollution ...

Dear Latin American, Caribbean and European Union leaders, We are writing to urge you to use the upcoming European Union (EU) – Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) summit as an ...

“Cultural heritage is significant in the present, both as a message from the past and as a pathway to the future. Viewed from a human rights perspective, it is important not only in itself, but also ...

The U.N.'s top human rights body has given an updated assessment two years after its damning review of the human rights situation in China. Ravina Shamdasani, a spokesperson for the Office of the High ...

Oct. 21 (UPI) --Article 19 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares that "everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold ...