Youth for Human Rights International launched its third Annual World Tour this weekend as part of their campaign to make human rights a fact through implementing human rights education around the world. The urgent need to make all nations honor and enforce the Universal Declaration...

A ceremony to honor four national winners of the first Human Rights Heroes Award drew a standing room only crowd—from legislators to human rights and religious leaders and teenager advocates—at the Rayburn Congressional Building on Capitol Hill on the night...

At first glance, there are hardly two towns in the world that have less in common than Watts, California and Padova, Italy.

Watts is a classic American inner-city area. While community leaders are determined to create a cultural renaissance in Watts, media all too often...

The first Human Rights Sign-a-Thon weekend, a grass-roots activity to get thousands of citizens signing onto a petition to raise awareness and teach human rights, was a huge success. Teaming up with like-minded groups and organizations around the world , Youth for Human Rights...

When 19-year-old Taron Lexton created UNITED, an emotionally charged human rights hip-hop music video, he never expected that 4 million people would be watching it in movie theaters throughout Hungary in 2006. This is exactly what will happen.

The appeal of UNITED...