Pope Leo XIV condemned the weakening of international multilateralism and the increased use of force in a speech to diplomats ...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has traditionally maintained that freedom of expression safeguards speech that may "offend, shock or disturb." However, its stance on hate speech is not in ...

In this third post in The Volokh Conspiracy guest series, I examine a critical issue in the European Court of Human Rights' (ECtHR) hate speech jurisprudence: its embrace of what I term the "low ...

In 1977, American Nazis fought for the right to march in Skokie, Illinois—a town filled with Holocaust survivors—and won. Nearly fifty years later, late-night host Jimmy Kimmel was suspended for jokes ...

The America First human rights focus is primarily based on protecting freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of thought and conscience, and freedom of expression, as well as respect for ...

Human rights watchdogs in Malaysia have recently seen a series of legislative and regulatory successes that have observers optimistic about the future of free speech and civil protections in the ...

At the end of World War II, the U.S. and its allies made a compelling case that protecting and promoting human rights is not ...

For too long, Left-wing ideologues have conflated the idea of ‘human rights’ with adherence to Left-wing ideologies that do not represent the views of the U.S. as a whole. The State Department’s ...

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 ...

"Significant human rights issues" in Britain "worsened" last year, the US Government has said. A new report from the US State Department has handed the UK a damning new report card on the state of ...