African Commission’s rejection of observer status applications by three human rights organisations threatens its ability to discharge its mandate to promote and protect human rights for all. We, the ...

In 2017 Senator Bernie Sanders made the Republicans’ tax bill a human rights issue by connecting it to UN Special Rapporteur Philip Alston’s investigation of “extreme poverty” in the United States.

This paper describes the different options that have been suggested at the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing about creating and strengthening human rights instruments to better protect and promote ...

Human rights are universal, inalienable and indivisible. Everyone is entitled to exercise their human rights, without discrimination. Respect for human rights is one of the founding values of the ...