Tad Stahnke discusses how blasphemy and "defamation of religion" laws have resulted in arrests and arbitrary detentions, in addition to sparking assaults, murders and mob attacks around the world.

Listen to Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, discuss his recent Foreign Affairs article, "Empty Promises? Obama's Hesitant Embrace of Human Rights," with students as part of CFR's Academic Conference Call series.

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This report from the International Crisis Group provides an overview of the existing humanitarian crisis in North Korea and how tightening sanctions and domestic problems have deepened the DPRK human security tragedy.

Watch Desmond Tutu, archbishop emeritus and Nobel peace laureate, discuss faith and foreign policy.

This meeting was the annual David A. Morse Lecture and was cosponsored with the CFR Religion and Foreign Policy Initiative.

Listen to Desmond Tutu, archbishop emeritus and Nobel peace laureate, discuss faith and foreign policy.

This meeting was the annual David A. Morse Lecture and was cosponsored with the CFR Religion and Foreign Policy Initiative.

This meeting was the annual David A. Morse Lecture and was cosponsored with the CFR Religion and Foreign Policy Initiative.

Joshua Kurlantzick says the West now ignores human rights.

U.S. President Barack Obama has vocally promoted a human rights agenda. Now, his administration must translate his rhetoric into practice.

Iran's crackdown on opposition groups has put the spotlight on a grim human rights record that is costing the government its legitimacy among its people, who will continue to find ways to protest, says Rudi Bakhtiar, a spokeperson on Iranian human rights.

Joshua Kurlantzik argues, "the age of global human-rights advocacy has collapsed."

Recently, ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo expressed plans to investigate alleged crimes against humanity during post-election violence in Kenya, and is considering an investigation of alleged war crimes during the 2008 Gaza War. To date, situations in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, and Darfur have been referred to the ICC. Please join Luis Moreno-Ocampo to discuss these issues, case selection, and the foreign policy implications of the ICC's work.

Watch Luis Moreno-Ocampo, International Criminal Court prosecutor, outline his plans to investigate alleged crimes against humanity and the foreign policy implications of the ICC's work.

Listen to Luis Moreno-Ocampo, International Criminal Court prosecutor, outline his plans to investigate alleged crimes against humanity and the foreign policy implications of the ICC's work.

Four experts discuss how legal and political developments should affect the Obama administration's promise to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay.