Civil and voting rights activists gathered in Jackson, Mississippi, to honor what would have been the 100th birthday of civil ...

The State Department is changing its mind about human rights The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses.

On July 9, 2025, in the case of Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human ...

"Political rights and civil liberties were diminished in 52 countries, while only 21 countries made improvements." "Today, we are witnessing the dawn of a free-speech recession," Justitia's ...

Using the DEI label as a smokescreen, our political leaders have mounted a profound assault on human and civil rights, from rescinding a ban on segregated workplace facilities to dismantling the ...

Dem. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse was blasted on social media over a post where he compared Dem. Sen. Alex Padilla's press conference outburst to the work of a late Civil Rights hero.

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — In the wake of recent political unrest in the United States, as well as some reports of politically motivated violence, a political science professor at Western Michigan ...

Fannie Lou Hamer's fight for voting rights in 1964 remains relevant today as states continue to enact voter suppression tactics. While Black political representation has increased, many elected ...

A number of political points, political principles, arise from this situation. First, the problems we confront are international in character. The assault on democratic rights is global in character.

In April 2024, the European Court of Human Rights issued a ground breaking ruling establishing protection from the effects of climate change as a human right under European law. The opinion ...

We write as 58 human rights organizations, media freedom groups and representatives of the international legal community to raise profound concern over the extraordinary assault by the government of ...

The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses. July 9, 2025 contribute now ...