Protesters raise their fists and placards during a demonstration in observance of the International Human Rights day in Manila on Dec. 10, 2022. (Photo: AFP) “Ask not what your country can do for you ...

While the Trump administration is less focused on human rights in US foreign policy, it is still reframing the concept to advance conservative priorities. Editor’s Note: This article is part of the ...

Some concept of rights is vital for the prosperity and progress of any society. The absence of rights is slavery, and even those nations that participated in it embraced rights for non-slave citizens.

In a TEDx talk years ago, Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari made the startling claim that human rights do not exist. "[H]uman rights are just like heaven and like God: It's just a fictional story ...

The global community after the great devastation of World War II was forced to develop some international instrument to defend human life and human rights together and as result emerged the Universal ...

Rothko Chapel will host a dialogue between Tink Tinker and Dina Gilio-Whitaker, moderated by Suzanne Benally, exploring the concept of rights for the American Indian people. Juxtaposed to western ...

Veteran civil rights activist Bob Woodson condemned the idea of reparations for past slavery on an episode of "Dr, Phil," suggesting that an anti-White mindset behind it is toxic for the Black ...

In Walker v. Senecal, --- F.4th ---, 2025 WL 715398 (2d Cir. Mar. 6, 2025), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit considered whether allegations of a prison officer’s destruction of a ...

Plymouth is home to more than 60,000 people, and those 60,000 all have the same neighbor in the form of nature. A legal theory explained to Charter Commission members at their last meeting, however, ...

This article was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Sen. Jill P. Carter (D-Baltimore City) leaves ...