To be more effective, the US human rights policy needs to focus on three basic principles. Editor’s Note: This article is part of the symposium “Human Rights in the Trump Era.” The full symposium can ...

In many ways, the place of human rights in US foreign policy is simply returning to its pre-World War II norm. Editor’s Note: This article is part of the symposium “Human Rights in the Trump Era.” The ...

What a difference eight years makes. During President Trump’s first term, then-Sen. Marco Rubio pushed the president to expand his human rights diplomatic agenda. Rubio recognized that promoting human ...

Mathias Risse is Berthold Beitz professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs and Philosophy and director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Maggie Gates is the executive director of the Carr ...

The Trump administration seems intent on undermining America’s ability to make human rights a significant element of its foreign policy. As evidence of that, consider its plan to dramatically reduce ...

Human Rights Watch mourns the loss of Jimmy Carter, who made trailblazing contributions to the human rights movement during his US presidency and long afterward. Carter created a foreign policy agenda ...

The United States has been publishing reports on human rights practices in other countries since 1977. Initially, only countries receiving foreign U.S. assistance were covered. Today, all countries ...

President Trump’s unconventional address to the United Nations General Assembly last week was short on specifics, but his administration’s recent actions have changed America’s human rights policy in ...

U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un talk before a meeting in the Demilitarized Zone on June 30, 2019, in Panmunjom, Korea. Human rights issues—from equal treatment for ...

If Donald Trump’s second term is anything like his first, the incoming U.S. president will not advance the cause of human rights. His foreign policy is more likely to harm democratic values around the ...

Mondelēz International has announced significant strides in its commitment to human rights and sustainability through its 2024 Human Rights Due Diligence and Modern Slavery Report. The company has ...

Jimmy Carter was a Sunday school teacher for much of his life, and he was not above preaching when the moment demanded it, including two leaders of what was then the Soviet Union. Carter put human ...