ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A local organization recognized International Human Rights Week at the Islamic Center of Rochester. The event featured speakers from the New York State Council of Churches. The goal ...

Conflict between people and wildlife has long been a challenge both for the wellbeing of local communities and for the ...

The ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), the growing criticism towards paternalistic and coercive models of ...

Back Council of Europe Side Event on “Human Rights, Health and the Environment: Where human rights shape sustainable health ...

Democratic backsliding, shifting geopolitics and competing priorities have made it harder for Europeans to promote human rights in the Middle East and North Africa. Yet the stability and prosperity of ...

United Nations member states unanimously adopted the sustainable development agenda in 2015. It aims to ensure development that “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of ...

Astrid Puentes’s journey from Bogotá to the UN is shaped by a deep awareness of how environmental harm often mirrors social injustice. Early in her legal career, she confronted cases where pollution ...

(opens in a new window) (opens in a new window) (opens in a new window) (opens in a new window) Copy Learning about the rights of older people and the key elements of a human rights-based approach to ...

AS the Philippines confronts complex and overlapping social and economic challenges, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on ...