In October 2023, some 20 months after Russian forces invaded Ukraine, the UN reported a mounting civilian death toll, as well as a...

The story of human rights in Latin America is one of both remarkable change and ongoing inequities. Having overcome widespread terror,...

Ninoy Aquino was a Filipino politician who was elected as a senator in 1967, during the reign of dictator Ferdinand Marcos. He became...

Since the mid-1980s, democracy has been on the rise in the Latin American subcontinent. It has made significant strides in terms human...

Created in 2006, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is the main international organization within the UN tasked with...

In 2022, the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI), a New Zealand-based project, suggested that of the 100 countries surveyed, China...

In February 2023, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights called on nations still practicing the death penalty to work...

In 1991, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Aung San Suu Kyi, who was under house arrest at the time. In this article, we look at Suu...

Nelson Mandela’s fight against apartheid famously saw him imprisoned for some 27 years. A journey that started in the court of tribal...

On April 11, 2019, British police removed Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, subsequently arresting him. Since that...