human rights

At last month's Human Rights in the Americas Symposium at the University of Miami, panelists argued that homelessness should be addressed as a pressing human rights issue. Florida, they noted, is leading the way in criminalizing being without a place to sleep.

The city attorney in Jacksonville says an initiative intended to challenge a new gay rights law cannot be legally placed on the November ballot.The…

This year is the 68th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a declaration adopted by the United Nations on Dec. 10, 1948.To honor this…