The IOC is shutting down 12 permanent committees focusing on issues like human rights and gender issues, saying it will ...

Human rights groups sharply criticized Tuesday's uncontested election of 15 members of the United Nations’ premier human ...

The decision follows a review process that has lasted for over a year, with the IOC announcing a total of 12 commissions to ...

Professor Margaret Satterthwaite ’99, the United Nations special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, has ...

The Sport & Rights Alliance (SRA) and Football Supporters Europe (FSE) published a joint report Tuesday documenting the ...

Human rights advocates have asked a United Nations panel to intervene in a new U.S. government practice that they say amounts to the “enforced disappearance” of noncitizens The Right Livelihood Award ...

The 2026 Men's World Cup exposed a failure of FIFA's leadership to implement its own human rights policies, with the pursuit ...

Rights groups say uncontested vote undermines accountability as countries with poor human rights records win seats.

The US State Department directed millions of dollars originally earmarked to promote human rights to promote far-right causes including Afrikaner rights in South Africa, safeguarding “Western ...

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader, last October, but within ...

A protest in Washington, DC calling for an end to executions and human rights violations in Iran. Photo: Reuters/ Bryan ...

Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) is honoured to announce that Canadian literary icon Margaret Atwood will receive the JHR Award for Extraordinary Achievement at JHR's annual gala Night for Rights, ...