Category: Human Rights

by Amnesty International

Through our detailed research and determined campaigning, we help fight abuses of human rights worldwide. We bring torturers to justice. Change oppressive laws. And free people jailed just for voicing their opinion.

by Lifeway Research
January 28, 2022

In the past year, 360 million Christians, or 1 in 7 believers around the world, suffered significant persecution for their faith. Every day in 2021, an average of more than 16 believers were killed for following Jesus. With close to 6000 total martyrs, 2021 saw a 24% increase in Christians killed for the faith.

by Human Rights Council
12 May 2022

The consequences of this military attack on the protection and promotion of human rights in Ukraine would be profound and long-lasting and would cause immense suffering and irreparable harm lasting for generations.

by Cyril Zenda
March 1, 2022

Human rights violations continue to increase in Africa, with a report by a global rights watchdog raising the red flag for most of the countries on the continent.

by Got Questions

Today, Christians are still working to combat human rights abuses and to promote the welfare of all people.

by Lauren Green McAffee and Michael McAffee

It is in Christianity and, more specifically, in the Bible that we find the source of universal human rights. All humans are created in the image of God – this is the abolitionists’ argument for the dissolution of slavery.

by Human Rights Watch

North Korea in 2020 remained one of the most repressive countries in the world. The totalitarian government deepened repression and maintained fearful obedience using threats of execution, imprisonment, enforced disappearance, and forced labor.

by Loyiso Sidimba
March 6, 2021

Outgoing Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng defiantly told retired Gauteng Deputy Judge President Phineas Mojapelo that the Palestine-Israel dispute was peripheral and not inherently South African in his response to complaints against him.

by Joseph Klein
June 20, 2018

The United Nations’ refusal to heed calls for reform led to the withdrawal of the US from the United Nations Human Rights Council.

by  Alex Newman
November 8, 2016

More than half of the regimes sitting on the United Nations Human Rights Council after last week’s election have been categorized as unfree, sparking criticism and further ridicule of the global body ostensibly tasked with upholding the UN’s vision of human rights.