The McCain Institute invites you to join the event, “Unsilenced: Empowering Human Rights Defenders in Exile” on Wednesday, Dec. 13, at the ASU Barrett & O’Connor Washington Center. This event,… Read more »
Human rights defenders put their lives on the line everyday to defend and advance the ability of all people to access their fundamental human rights, and this critically important role… Read more »
The rights situation in Russia has “significantly deteriorated” since President Vladimir Putin launched his war against Ukraine in February last year, an expert commissioned by the U.N.’s top human rights… Read more »
Today, for only the fourth time since its foundation in 1949, the heads of state of the Council of Europe (CoE) will come together in Reykjavik, Iceland, note Amnesty International’s… Read more »
The U.S. Department of State has announced the winners of the annual Global Human Rights Defender Awards, determined by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. From working to… Read more »
The documentary film FIRST TO STAND, follows Irwin Cotler, Founder and International Chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, and his team of activists as they take on… Read more »
The Solidarity Center hosts a Special Event with Mary Lawlor, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, to discuss the Human Rights of Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers. To… Read more »
At least 31 civilians have been killed in an Iranian security forces crackdown on protests that erupted over the death of Mahsa Amini after her arrest by the morality police,… Read more »
As a lead member of a band of legal activists, Ding Jiaxi, formerly a successful corporate attorney, was practicing a perilous vocation: human rights law in China. Waging a longshot… Read more »
The democratic West must maintain sanctions on Russia until three outcomes are achieved, including war criminals being brought to justice, say leading experts. This month marks the 20th anniversary of… Read more »