Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission

Protecting and supporting human rights defenders is a key priority of U.S. foreign policy. Here are U.S. strategies for their protection.

What are human rights and where did they come from? Here's short video with answers.

The 2018 report from the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom on the status of religious freedom around the world is available here.

On March 13, 2019, the U.S. State Department released the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2018.

Learn what atrocity crimes are and why it's important to prosecute them.

Looking for the universal human rights instruments? You'll find them here.

U.S. Department of State's annual Trafficking in Persons Report for 2018

April has unfortunately been a significant month in the planning and implementation of genocide. In April 1915, the Ottoman government rounded up and arrested Armenian intellectuals – the first step in the Armenian Genocide. Less than 20 years later, in April 1933, the Nazis implemented several measures restricting the rights of Jews in Germany. That month in 1975, the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh in Cambodia and massacred over 1 million people over four years. And in April 1994, an airplane carrying the president of Rwanda was shot down by a surface-to-air missile as it was about to land in Kigali airport – igniting the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

The Global Week of Action Against Genocide in Darfur is organized by Darfur Women Action Group annually as a part of the Genocide Prevention and Awareness Campaign. The Global Week of Action aims to bring attention to the plight of those who are still suffering in Darfur and crises affected regions of South Kordofan and Blue Nile.