State Department reports portray Germany as more oppressive than El Salvador.

The Trump administration is twisting the concept of human rights in support of a political agenda that undermines equality, ...

Required by Congress, the reports no longer single out things like rigged elections or sexual violence against children as ...

The concept of universal human rights has been diluted by a proliferation of conventions that pander to special interest groups, an international human rights activist and researcher says.

I fear that the more we yell, the more a common understanding disappears, and the more the phrase ‘human rights’ loses any ...

We assert the timeless and transcendent principles that inspired the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” he added.

As the world marked the 70th anniversary of the Allied forces liberating the survivors of the Nazi death camps, human-rights leaders warn that the lessons of the Holocaust cannot be taken for granted.

Human rights are almost universally accepted not only as a yardstick for judging our actions, but as a sort of all-conquering legal code whose transgression often attracts the heaviest of penalties.

Germans, in other words, are being called human-rights abusers because they continue to outlaw Nazi propaganda, as they have done since 1945. The Trump administration’s motives are clear here too.

Debates about the definition of human rights will continue. The U.S. will simply play a different role in them. Tom Malinowski, a former representative who once ran the DRL bureau, puts it best.