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 ...

Global human rights deteriorated sharply in 2024, with more than 60% of countries receiving failing grades in an annual watchdog report released Thursday, reflecting what researchers called a ...

The Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, where the first Convention for Women's Rights was held on July 19 and 20, 1848. Over 300 men and women attended. Over a hundred years ago, on December 14 ...

In a 2014 joint interview, former Supreme Court justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia were asked a pressing legal question about immigrant rights. Do the five freedoms mentioned in the First ...

From a van offering free emergency contraception to emotional speeches, reproductive rights have taken center stage at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) this week, as Democrats hope the issue ...

TV and movies have made these essential rights common knowledge. What do they really mean? Miranda Rights is the term used to describe the constitutional protections you still have while being ...

Ms. Greenhouse, the recipient of a 1998 Pulitzer Prize, reported on the Supreme Court for The Times from 1978 to 2008. Questions about the Voting Rights Act’s constitutionality have long been hanging ...

How well do you know your rights? Test your knowledge when you play the online version of our Bus Tour’s Know Your Rights Game Show quiz. This September the ACLU is hitting the road with artists, ...

The Bachelor of Arts in Human Rights (HRT)—inspired by the rich human rights and civil rights history Birmingham, Alabama, has to offer—prepares students with the knowledge, skills, and awareness to ...

Today, the planet is facing what César Rodríguez-Garavito, founding director of the More-Than-Human Life (MOTH) Program, calls a “triple planetary crisis of climate, biodiversity, and pollution.” With ...