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A United Nations draft report on sex-based violence against women and girls calls gender dysphoria “socially contagious” ...
GENEVA — For the first time in nine years, the United Nations Human Rights Committee this week reviewed U.S. compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The ...
Human Rights Watch leverages our research on countries and issues addressed at the United Nations to inform UN officials and member states of key findings, influence policy on a wide range of ...
U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that the United States will withdrawing from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and will not renew funding for the UN agency helping ...
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday withdrawing the United States from the United Nations Human Rights Council. “I’ve always felt that the U.N. has tremendous potential ...
This week, the United Nations Human Rights and the University of Colorado Boulder hosted its Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit, addressing the link between human rights and climate change.
GENEVA — The United Nations Human Rights Committee issued a scathing report today castigating the United States’ record on a ... The Committee’s report comes weeks after the ACLU joined more than 140 ...
While officials from the United Arab Emirates, Israel, and America condemned this heinous crime, leading human rights organizations like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International remained silent.
The Biden administration will reengage with the United Nations Human Rights Council, ... arrives to a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, ...
China is one of forty-seven countries meeting in Geneva for the second of three UN Human Rights Council sessions this year. Created in its current form in 2006, the council is the United Nations ...
Versions in Arabic, French, Russian and Spanish (20 July 2023) The President of the General Assembly, Csaba Kőrösi, today announced the winners of the prestigious United Nations Prize in the ...
Human Rights Watch, along with numerous other nongovernmental organizations, United Nations human rights experts, and Hong Kong legislators have long expressed concerns to the Hong Kong government ...