While the Trump administration is less focused on human rights in US foreign policy, it is still reframing the concept to advance conservative priorities. Editor’s Note: This article is part of the ...

Human rights developed in response to specific violations of human dignity, and can therefore be conceived as specifications of human dignity, their moral source. This internal relationship explains ...

To many Westerners, the concept of human rights in China is a negative one. However, what is left unexplained by China’s critics is a paradox: How could a country with one-fifth of the world’s ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr Ewelina U Ochab is a Forbes contributor, lawyer, and author. The United Nations observes Human Rights Day on December 10, the ...

From the vantage point of the twenty-first century, it is sometimes easy to forget just how revolutionary the concept of human rights is. Few who witnessed the adoption of the Universal Declaration of ...

State executions, criminalization of homelessness, imprisonment of debtors, systemic racism, abuse of immigrants. These are not simply moral ills or social problems. More deeply, they are human rights ...

Analysis of the paradoxes of the concept of "human rights" under capitalism, which "objectively" defines human rights as a function of the individual's "solvency" or usefulness in capital's ...

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 ...

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