Over the next year, approximately 1,500 lost or runaway children between the ages of 3 and 18 will spend up to three months at the Kiev City Orphanage for Youth and Teenagers. It was a group of these young people that Youth for Human Rights International (YHRI) addressed on...

With this week’s unveiling of thirty new TV public service announcements (PSAs)—each illustrating one of the 30 Articles of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights—Youth for Human Rights International (YHRI) and the Human Rights Department of the Church...

The Paris chapter of Youth for Human Rights International presented Mr. Yeka Futy with the “Know Your Human Rights Hero Award,” a special honor given to caring adults who have made an impact in their areas through stellar human rights activities and the implementation...

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...