As the federal government refuses to recognize the UN treaty on the rights of the disabled, a growing number of cities are incorporating international human rights standards into their policymaking.

For those of us considered to be “boomers,” the men and women who lost their lives or were deployed in the European or Pacific theaters were our fathers, our uncles. Countless civilians at home, our ...

Kyrgyzstan’s parliament, Zhogorku Kenesh, should reject a Russia-style “foreign agents bill” that poses a grave threat to nongovernmental organizations’ activities across the country, 9 international ...

(New York) – Sri Lanka’s parliament should reject a resolution to exonerate officials implicated in human rights abuses and to prosecute police and prosecutors investigating them, Human Rights Watch ...

Saudi Arabia and Qatar rejected a U.S. State Department report naming them as top offenders in human trafficking. The report said victims in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates ...

Two new alternatives to burial and cremation fail to comply with the Catholic Church's teaching on respect for the bodies of the dead, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Doctrine ...