At 3 a.m., on Dec. 10, 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations, meeting in Paris, enacted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The delegates then did something that had never happened ...

Several human rights organizations sued Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the State Department on Friday over the Commission on Unalienable Rights. Several human rights organizations sued Secretary ...

What are unalienable rights and why are they so important? In this video, we explore why Thomas Jefferson included them for ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. President Biden did not resist, in his recent press conference, the temptation to ...

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of ...

June 19, 1865, has several names: Jubilee, Black Independence Day, Emancipation Day and Freedom Day to name a few. It’s most popularly known and celebrated as Juneteenth. Juneteenth represents a ...

Paul G. Summers is a lawyer. He is a former appellate and senior judge, district attorney general, and the Attorney General of Tennessee. Raised in Fayette County, he lives in Holladay and Nashville.