Human Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Holocaust

Johannes Morsink argues that the 1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the human rights movement today are direct descendants of revulsion to the Holocaust and the desire to never let i

Human Rights after Hitler

Wartime Sexual Violence

Reports of sexual violence in armed conflict frequently appear in political discussions and news media, presenting a stark contrast to a long history of silence and nonrecognition.

Libya's Displacement Crisis

Theology and the Boundary Discourse of Human Rights

Keeping Faith with Human Rights

The human rights regime is one of modernity's great civilizing triumphs.

The Sacredness of the Person

What are the origins of the idea of human rights and universal human dignity? How can we most fully understand—and realize—these rights going into the future?

Refugee Rights

Of the over 33 million refugees and internally displaced people in the world today, a disproportionate percentage are found in Africa.

For All Peoples and All Nations

In this new century, born in hope but soon thereafter cloaked in terror, many see religion and politics as a volatile, if not deadly, mixture.

Breaking Silence

Young seventeen-year-old Joelito Filártiga was taken from his family home in Asunción, Paraguay, brutally tortured, and murdered by the Paraguayan police.