A new report from the American Consumer Institute (ACI) details, for all their touting as “green” sources of energy, wind and solar powered electricity generation is much more environmentally harmful ...

The funding cuts are part of a broader budget realignment.

United Nations Special Rapporteurs sent Cornell along with four other universities a letter raising “serious concern” over ...

A general election in Germany is expected in February 2025. In December 2024, Human Rights Watch wrote to political parties in Germany sharing an election briefing that sets out key priorities and ...

Which U.S. presidential candidate — Democrat Kamala Harris or Republican Donald Trump — is likely to be more sympathetic toward Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s India if they were to assume office? It ...

The US State Department on Tuesday released a pared-down version of its annual report meant to catalogue human rights concerns in countries around the world. The report covers the 2024 calendar year – ...

2025 is shaping up to be an annus horribilis for the dedicated community of North Korean human rights activists. The past two months have seen U.S. funding sources and programs decimated in the wake ...

Last Thursday, October 17, the 142nd session of the UN Human Rights Committee was held in Geneva, to review the human rights record of Pakistan. A handful of students at the Geneva Academy, including ...

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. Sector long plagued by allegations of forced-labour and land-rights abuses RSPO"s Nov 2024 standard toughens rules on ...

As the United Kingdom government grapples with overhauling the law on how to address issues from the Northern Ireland conflict, the British parliament has asked Human Rights First for our analysis and ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. How can the United States successfully promote human rights and democracy in the ...