Article 8 of the UDHR underlines the sweeping customary requirement that everyone has the right to an effective remedy at law for acts violating the "…fundamental rights granted him by the law ...

The principal international human rights documents clearly protect the human rights of prisoners. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the Convention Against ...

We, the undersigned organizations, committed to the promotion and defense of human rights, sexual rights, and reproductive ...

HRCP Secretary-General Harris Khalique emphasised that the law not only violates Articles 8 and 16 of Pakistans Constitution ...

ICESCR, Article 6(1): The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right to work, which includes the right of everyone to the opportunity to gain his living by work which he freely ...

The U.N. Human Rights Committee, which monitors the legally-binding 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and was asked to consider a complaint by a group of refugees, found that ...

Recent statements by US officials asserting a "biblical right" to certain territories are concerning, as they risk ...

UN rights committee holds Australia responsible for arbitrary detention of asylum seekers in Nauru's offshore facilities ...

The United Nations Human Rights Committee has decided that native title law had run roughshod over First Nations rights in deciding against the Wunna Nyiyaparli people. Paul Gregoire reports.