A new report from the American Consumer Institute (ACI) details, for all their touting as “green” sources of energy, wind and solar powered electricity generation is much more environmentally harmful ...

The "Two Covenants" referred to in the bilingual report are the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, both UN ...

When Sharon was 13, she had no idea what was being done to her wasn’t normal. One of five women featured during a panel at the Safe Coalition for Human Rights’ fourth annual United Nations World Day ...

Last Thursday, October 17, the 142nd session of the UN Human Rights Committee was held in Geneva, to review the human rights record of Pakistan. A handful of students at the Geneva Academy, including ...

(Bangkok) – Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s final year in office produced no major initiatives to address the human rights problems in the country, Human Rights Watch said today in its ...

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. Sector long plagued by allegations of forced-labour and land-rights abuses RSPO"s Nov 2024 standard toughens rules on ...

Climate change and environmental destruction are becoming increasingly central to the human rights movement. Droughts, toxic pollution, water shortages, desertification, severe storms and related ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. How can the United States successfully promote human rights and democracy in the ...

Expectations were that Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa would appoint someone affiliated with his party to head the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC). Instead, he opted for outspoken Jessie ...

(Bangkok) – Thailand’s new government should take concrete steps to make human rights a priority, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra. Prime Minister ...

Mr. Elsborg is a senior analyst at Play the Game, an initiative promoting democracy, transparency and freedom of expression in sport. In a bygone era, N.B.A. teams enforced an unofficial quota on ...

Mr. Posner is a lawyer and human rights advocate who was the assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor from 2009 to 2013. In the late 1980s, Joseph Nye, the Harvard political ...