On Dec. 4, 2025, human rights nonprofit organization Amnesty International published a report alleging multiple examples of human rights abuses — including one practice that would meet the United ...

Five United Nations special rapporteurs expressed concern over potential human rights violations in an Oct. 14 letter to acting University President Claire Shipman, CC ’86, SIPA ’94, obtained by ...

The road to genocide doesn’t begin with bullets and mass graves, but with more subtle violations. Declining workers’ rights or compromises on the right to a fair trial may come first. Brutality by law ...

*This brief has been updated to reflect new Concluding Observations made by UN Treaty Bodies as of July 8, 2025. Tax policy is inextricably bound up with governments’ human rights obligations. Under ...

Indonesian Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto arrives at at ceremony where President Joko Widodo presented him with the rank of four-star general in Jakarta, Indonesia, Feb. 28, 2024. Credit: ...

Human rights were not only violated in big public explosions. They were also violated by the relentless daily injustices of policies that affected where you lived and worked.