Human rights in France are contained in the preamble of the Constitution of the French Fifth Republic, founded in 1958, and the 1789 Declaration of the...

The Human Rights League (French: Ligue des droits de l’homme [et du citoyen] or LDH) of France is a Human Rights NGO association to observe, defend and...

related to this article: Universal Declaration of Human Rights The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is an international document adopted by the...

The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR; formally the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms) is an international...

Human rights are moral principles, or norms, for certain standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected as substantive rights in substantive...

Human rights in the United Kingdom concern the fundamental rights in law of every person in the United Kingdom. An integral part of the UK constitution...

United Nations Human Rights Council in 2006. It was a subsidiary body of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), and was also assisted in its work by...

"All victims of human rights abuses should be able to look to the Human Rights Council as a forum and a springboard for action." — Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General...

International human rights law (IHRL) is the body of international law designed to promote human rights on social, regional, and domestic levels. As a...

While belief in the sanctity of human life has ancient precedents in many religions of the world, the foundations of modern human rights began during...