Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission

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

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

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

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

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

The 2019 report from the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom on the status of religious freedom around the world is available here.

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

On Nov. 25th we recommit to ending violence against women and girls - a human rights violation that derives from persistent inequalities between men and women and discrimination against women in law and in practice.