It is a human right. Yet four decades later, much of the global human rights conversation still behaves as if development were optional. Human rights were never intended to be divided into first-class ...

In 2017 Senator Bernie Sanders made the Republicans’ tax bill a human rights issue by connecting it to UN Special Rapporteur Philip Alston’s investigation of “extreme poverty” in the United States.

Human rights are universal, inalienable and indivisible. Everyone is entitled to exercise their human rights, without discrimination. Respect for human rights is one of the founding values of the ...