The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is generally agreed to be the foundation of international human rights law. Adopted in 1948, the UDHR has inspired a rich body of legally binding ...

The human rights movement grew out of the disasters of World War II and is at the basis of international law theory and practice. The international rule of exhaustion of local remedies before ...

Libyan lawyers interviewed by Human Rights Watch knew of no cases in which judges cited international law when making a decision. According to some judges and prosecutors, referencing ...

Students need to have already taken and done well in a course in Public International Law or in Civil Liberties Law. This course aims to provide a comprehensive and analytical account of the ...

The immediate story begins with the Charter of the United Nations, the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the negotiation of numerous human rights treaties and a suite of other ...

The U.N. human rights chief on Monday warned that a system of global protections built in the decades after World War Two has ...