In the context of the ongoing negotiations to end the four-decade conflict between the Turkish state and the armed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the Parliament in August 2025 established a ...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights must recognize democracy as an autonomous right before democratic erosion becomes ...

(Washington, DC) – The Trump administration’s new US State Department structure may further hamstring rights and justice-related work, with programming already decimated by foreign aid cuts, Human ...

On Feb. 18, a panel discussion was held in the Konover Auditorium titled “U.S. Democracy & Human Rights at a Crossroads.” Kathryn Libal, director of the Gladstein Human Rights Institute, was the first ...

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 – ...

U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un talk before a meeting in the Demilitarized Zone on June 30, 2019, in Panmunjom, Korea. Human rights issues—from equal treatment for ...

The Chinese Embassy in the U.S. on Tuesday laid out four hot-button issues it said should not be raised in President Trump’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week. “The four red ...

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 ...

Students and faculty discussed how technological developments impact human rights and democracy at the DataX Impact Forum in May. The event – titled “Beyond Broligarchy: The Fight for a Better Future” ...

On April 29, 1999, precision-guided NATO bombs tore through the brick facades of two defense-ministry buildings in Belgrade, the capital of the rump state of Yugoslavia. The targets were chosen more ...

The third edition of the Hong Kong Human Rights Art Exhibition opened in Taipei yesterday, with organizers hoping the artwork ...

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