Human Rights News

Highlights from the Every Human Has Rights Campaign Celebration and Media Awards event. Among the speakers, campaign partner organizations renewed their commitments to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and journalists...

On Wednesday, 10 December - the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Mary Robinson will highlight the individual pledges and group commitments made throughout the Every Human Has Rights campaign in an address to world leaders at the UN General Assembly.

On the one-year anniversary of the UN resolution agreeing to make good on that obligation in the Darfur region of Sudan, authorizing a joint UN – African Union (UNAMID) force to support peacekeeping efforts, a report endorsed by 36 Human Rights groups calls the international community’s lack of contributions to the effort a “betrayal”.