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The files, some labeled "Top Secret," could shed more light on abuses committed in British colonies during the heyday of the Empire, that successive governments have long kept hidden.
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The right to drive is only one small step toward full legal equality.
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Kuwait Airways canceled an Israeli passenger's ticket because of their citizenship. Nothing wrong with that, said a court in Frankfurt — and provoked an outcry.
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A United Nations Security Council meeting on December 3, 2018 will shine a spotlight on the disproportionate impact of armed conflict on people with disabilities. People with disabilities have been invisible on the peace and security agendas of many countries around the world but are among the people most at risk during conflicts and humanitarian crises.
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The account in the Scottish Catholic Archives underlines the complexity of Victorian attitudes towards race and slavery, hard on the heels of the historian Professor Tom Devine of Edinburgh University arguing that Scots have been guilty of collective amnesia over our involvement in slavery.
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"I am what I am, so take me as I am."
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Kingdom’s justice ministry announces move to ‘protect the rights of the woman’, ending practice of only supplying document to husbands
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Mothers’ names will finally be included on marriage certificates under plans expected to be approved by the Home Office in the new year. At present, the official documents record only the names and occupations of the fathers of the bride and groom.
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Months after the president vowed to keep justice officials from ordering the examinations, found to be invalid, the tests are still traumatizing women.
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The two envelopes, one for each twin brother, arrived in the mailbox on the same day in March of last year.
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As its title indicates, Johannes Morsink’s new book takes stock of the grounding and prospects of human rights ideals in the face of what people often call “the return of religion.” He starts by claiming that, given its Holocaust origins, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 reflected secular assumptions—a common agreement transcending all faith commitments and requiring none in particular and, in fact, no faith of any kind. I think he proves his case, but scants the reasons why...
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Recent reports by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) emphasised the critical importance of records throughout the lives of care-experienced people. Records not only contain information about what happened to a person in their past, but also have long-term effects on memory and identity. Research emerging in the context of analogous national inquiries into the systemic abuse and neglect of children in care—particularly the Royal Commission in Australia and the Shaw Report...
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SpanishIt has been 70 years since world leaders explicitly spelled out the rights everyone on the planet could expect and demand simply because they are human beings. Born of a desire to prevent another Holocaust, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights continues to demonstrate the power of ideas to change the world.
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is one of the world's best-known and most translated documents. When it was presented to the United Nations General Assembly in December in 1948, Eleanor Roosevelt, chair of the writing group, called it a new "Magna Carta for all mankind." The passage of time has shown Roosevelt to have been largely correct in her prediction as to the declaration's importance. No other document in the world today can claim a comparable standing in the international...
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Through the life of one extraordinary man, this biography reveals what the term human rights meant to the men and women who endured two world wars, and how this major political and intellectual movement ultimately inspired and enshrined the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. René Cassin was a man of his generation, committed to moving from war to peace through international law, and whose work won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968. His life crossed all the major events of the first...
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