Thomas Paine was one of the greatest advocates of freedom in history, and his Declaration of the Rights of Man, first published in 1791, is the key to his reputation. Inspired by his outrage at Edmund ...
insider.si.edu: Thomas Paine's Rights of man : a biography / Christopher Hitchens
In May, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) heard a case by Legal Action Worldwide and partners accusing the Ethiopian government of human rights violations in Tigray.
A joint report by Human Rights Watch and the Initiative for Social and Economic Rights found that Uganda’s lack of government-funded pre-primary education worsens wealth inequality and has ...
Human rights are the basic rights and freedoms to which everyone is entitled on the basis of their common humanity. They include civil and political rights, as well as economic, social, and ...
World Report 2026, Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.
The Office of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression documented the killing of at least five journalists, between January and July.
Disability Rights People with psychosocial disabilities face human rights violations in facilities, including chaining despite a nationwide legal ban in 2021.
In December, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that Guatemala violated multiple rights of the Indigenous Maya Q’eqchi’ people in the El Estor municipality, Izabal state, including ...
On April 15, Justice Clarence Thomas delivered a lecture at the University of Texas at Austin in honor of the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Here's a taste: The second paragraph ...