The head of the U.K. Equality and Human Rights Commission says a Supreme Court ruling will exclude transgender women from ...

The Orange County Human Rights Commission and County Executive Steve Neuhaus have announced the 26th annual Human Rights ...

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In 1948, representatives from the 50 member states of the United Nations came together, with Eleanor Roosevelt (First Lady of the United States 1933-1945) chairing the Human Rights Commission, to ...

Some regional mechanisms have also been established to provide support for defenders. In North and South America the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights established a special unit to protect ...

Two successive terms of U.S. membership on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), before the mandatory one-year hiatus, have improved the body’s performance in several ways. These improvements ...

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It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. THE UK Government is reviewing how international human rights law is applied to migration cases, the Home Secretary has said. Ministers are ...