UN and regional human rights experts on Friday urged states to halt the criminalization of protesters and civil society activists, following what they called a pattern of arbitrary arrests and ...

Whenever groups such as the New York protesters gather to express their political views, they are exercising their freedom of assembly. The freedom of assembly is contained in the First Amendment ...

Over the course of the last sixteen months, the public sphere has witnessed an assault on rights to free expression and freedom of assembly unlike anything since the Communist witch hunts and Lavender ...

A new survey by the Freedom Forum shows that people largely do not understand their First Amendment rights, even as free ...

CU Boulder conflict scholar Michael English explains why public protests matter and what they can mean in the current political and social moment One of the most storied protests in U.S. history ...

The report reveals Bahrain’s ongoing persecution of minors for political dissent, detailing coerced confessions, prolonged detentions, and inhumane prison conditions. Azerbaijan is carrying out a ...

(RNS) — We have a choice: to surrender to outrage and conspiracy, or recommit to our first freedoms — a sacred democratic commitment to one another. (RNS) — Grief and fear are in the land. The ...