The United Nations Global Compact encourages businesses globally to align strategies with sustainable and ethical practices.

Although U.S. President Donald Trump has said little or nothing in public about defending human rights and freedoms abroad, both of his administrations have taken steps to reform the way that the ...

Human rights are not just words on paper. Advocates, social movements and government champions have brought much needed positive changes by pushing for the adoption of international human rights ...

The Canadian lawyer and long-time Amnesty International Canada secretary-general shared six principles for rebuilding ...

On the heels of a tech-centric Summit for Democracy, the White House released a series of recommendations titled ‘Guiding Principles on Government Use of Surveillance Technologies,’ marking the ...

No one should be surprised that practical politics usually come before principle in the United Nations. China's success last week in the U.N. Human Rights Commission in blocking a U.S. resolution ...

Today, the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC) and the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) have released ...

I s academic freedom a basic human right? This was just one of many provocative questions I had never considered before attending a conference on Academic Freedom in the Americas a couple of months ...

A general election in Germany is expected in February 2025. In December 2024, Human Rights Watch wrote to political parties in Germany sharing an election briefing that sets out key priorities and ...