In the wake of the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti last month, thousands of its countrymen are reversing a trend that has dominated life in developing third world countries for decades—they ...

Bongo (U/E), Oct. 16 – The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has called on the Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in the Upper East Region to integrate a Human Rights-Based Approach (HRBA) ...

The long-awaited biennial Conference of the Parties—or COP—to the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity got underway last week in Montreal after a two-year delay caused by the covid pandemic. The ...

The G-20, a group of nations that account for 80 percent of global GDP and two-thirds of the world’s population, met in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in mid-November amid grave economic and environmental ...

Joel E. Oestreich is a professor of Politics and Global Studies at Drexel University, specializing in International Relations. His primary areas of research include international organizations, ...

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 ...

With the United Nations Human Rights Office, Lorna McGregor and Petra Molnar launched a study advocating for a human-rights based approach to digital border technologies. “In an age in which digital ...

A human rights-based approach is a conceptual framework for the process of human development that is normatively based on international human rights standards and operationally directed to promoting ...

In every election, human rights matter. From local schoolboard elections to presidential elections, voters have the chance to choose candidates who will fight for all people’s human rights, not work ...