The UN Human Rights Council’s decision to pursue an international treaty on the rights of older people is a landmark victory ...

The Steering Committee for Human Rights (CDDH), set up by the Committee of Ministers end 1976, conducts the intergovernmental work of the Council of Europe in the human rights field in the light, in ...

A shift in the demands and objectives of the human rights project has led activists to adopt a sanctimonious tone — fuelling ...

Legal gender recognition refers to a law or policy allowing transgender people, including non-binary people, to modify their identity documents to reflect their self-perceived gender identity.Each of ...

Here’s How Some Human Rights and LGBTQ+ Groups Prepared for Major Foreign Aid Cuts Under Trump In early 2024, Matthew Hart took a hard look at the upcoming elections around the world and worried ...

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Drawing on data from the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist, Newsweek has created this map to show countries on the Human Rights Watchlist. CIVICUS categorizes civil rights into five distinct levels—open ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Let’s talk about the biggest coincidence in human ...

The US has been added to a global human rights watchlist over president Donald Trump’s “unparalleled attack on the rule of law”. Non-profit organisation CIVICUS has added the US to its first 2025 ...

It’s the first watchlist of the year. Claiming the U.S. was “once a global champion for democracy and human rights,” CIVICUS said Trump’s attempts to remake the federal government in his ...

This year marks the 30th anniversary of a women's conference in Beijing that recognized women's rights as human rights, producing an action platform that has helped drive policy and progress.

The Conservatives have said the Human Rights Act should no longer apply ... and looking at ways of tightening the application of Article 8 to ensure the system works more effectively." ...