In honor of the 60th Anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Youth for Human Rights International (YHRI) is again circling the globe, now on its sixth annual World Tour. This year’s team, including Dr. Mary Shuttleworth, President and Founder...

Where, after all, do Universal Rights begin?

"In small places, close to home—so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the...

Youth for Human Rights International (YHRI) is an NGO (nongovernmental organization) of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). With 56 participating countries, it is the largest regional security organization in the world. From September...

This has been a year of unprecedented expansion! As we celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, our human rights messages have reached people from all walks of life on virtually every continent—from Holland to Indonesia...

The year 2008 marks the fifth World Tour for Mary Shuttleworth, President of Youth for Human Rights International (YHRI). She traveled more than 37,000 miles to the Caribbean and then through Africa and Asia—returning to her starting point in Los Angeles this summer.