Guest author and scholar James Loeffler will deliver the 2019 Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies on Wednesday, February 20, at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn on the UC Santa Cruz campus.

Demonstrators wave the American flag during a civil rights march in Jackson, Miss. on June 17, 1963. Demonstrators wave the American flag during a civil rights march in Jackson, Miss. on June 17, 1963 ...

Do human rights still matter in a divided and dangerous world? Does the fact that they are violated invalidate them as tools for making the world safer and fairer? Are there concrete ways to ...

The seventy-fifth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in December 2023 was an opportunity to re-examine the work of Eleanor Roosevelt and her colleagues in the United Nations as ...

Observed every year on 10 December, Human Rights Day stands as a global reminder of the fundamental rights and freedoms every individual is entitled to, irrespective of nationality, gender, religion, ...

Human rights affirm our shared humanity and underscore our equal worth. Yet history repeatedly shows us that these rights are neither automatic nor permanent. They must be continuously upheld, ...

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 ...

In just one week, President Donald Trump has launched the most systemic and aggressive assault on human rights in U.S. presidential history. While the first Trump administration made similar attempts ...

Spring 2025 will mark the 48th release of the U.S. Department of State’s annual congressionally mandated Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, commonly referred to as the Human Rights Reports ...

The State Department released its long-awaited reports on international human rights Tuesday, and they drastically reduce the types of government repression and abuse that the United States under ...

For nearly half a century, the State Department has reported annually on human-rights conditions in countries around the world. The purpose of this exercise is not to cast aspersions, but to collect ...