International human rights law (IHRL)

The Trump administration damaged the annual report's credibility. It is critical to rethink the data, especially on women and girls.

"A simple return to an imagined world of pre-Trump human rights is not enough."

In these last days of the outgoing administration’s four-year assault on basic international norms, advocates have been issuing detailed recommendations for how the Biden-Harris…

[Editor’s Note: This article is part of a Just Security series, COVID and International Law. All articles in the series can be found here.] COVID-19 continues to grow at…

The practice of the Trump administration turning its back on rights at the United Nations goes well beyond the Human Rights Council.

The panel's lengthy exegesis of the Declaration contains at least six glaring omissions that have real-world consequences.

Its report displays an interpretative sneakiness, invoking the “founding era” and “founding principles” in a highly selective and under-inclusive way.

China’s “Strike Hard” campaign against Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, ... questionably framed by the Chinese government as a counterterrorism operation,…

There is a narrow window to truly examine how the U.S. government can advance, rather than undermine, equal rights for all.

The coronavirus crisis should not function as a cover for repressive action under the guise of protecting health, especially in already vulnerable populations.

Minority communities are having to weather the worst of the pandemic. Still, the Trump administration continues its efforts to downplay the significance of economic and social…

The prosecution of Salman Alodah, a reform-minded Saudi scholar, is particularly emblematic of Saudi Arabia's worrisome pattern of suppressing dissent.