Dan Garisto is a science journalist in Syracuse, New York. If the 264 million students enrolled in higher education around the globe were a country, it would be the fifth most populous in the world.

Thailand’s election on October 9 to the United Nations Human Rights Council positions the government to support children’s rights to education around the world, while showcasing the country’s own ...

In 1948, with much of the world in ruins in the aftermath of the Second World War, countries came together to draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to envision a better future for humanity.