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Committee on Human Rights

The Committee on Human Rights (CHR) is a standing membership committee of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and National Academy of Medicine. It serves as a ...
The Phnom Penh Post

Human Rights Committee petitions UN over Thai strikes with T-50TH jets

The Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC) will submit additional petitions to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and ...
Human Rights Watch

Submission by Human Rights Watch to the United Nations Human Rights Committee in Advance of its review of China (Hong Kong)

This memorandum provides an overview of Human Rights Watch’s central concerns with respect to the Chinese government’s human rights practices, submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Committee ...
Aclu.org

The U.S. Touts Itself as a Global Leader in Human Rights. A New U.N. Report Says Otherwise.

Earlier this month, the United Nations Human Rights Committee delivered a searing report highlighting the U.S. government’s failure to meet its human rights obligations under the International ...
Aclu.org

United Nations Human Rights Body Calls Out U.S. Failure to Comply with Civil and Political Rights Treaty

GENEVA — The United Nations Human Rights Committee issued a scathing report today castigating the United States’ record on a wide range of issues, including Indigenous rights, voting rights, freedom ...
Human Rights Watch

Indonesia: Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (the “Committee”) ahead of its upcoming review of Indonesia. This submission draws primarily ...
UPI

Why Committee for Human Rights in North Korea must be funded -- now more than ever

Oct. 27 (UPI) --At a time when authoritarian regimes are advancing, democracies are wavering and human rights are increasingly treated as optional rather than essential, one small organization ...
Biometric Update

UK rights committee questions police use of FRT on children, bias report

The UK Commons' human rights committee has questions about police including children on facial recognition watchlists and ...
The Conversation

The UN says Australia violated human rights law, but it’s unlikely to change the way we treat refugees

Sarah Moulds receives funding from the Australian Research Council and has previously received funding from the Law Foundation of South Australia. She is the volunteer Director of the Rights Resource ...
Anadolu Agency

UN rights office questions Austria's headscarf ban for girls under 14

Spokesperson tells Anadolu that it is 'unclear' how wearing veil threatens safety or rights, adding absolute bans deemed 'unreasonable' by Human Rights Committee - Anadolu Ajansı ...
The Conversation

An inquiry has recommended Australia legislate a Human Rights Act. Here’s why we need one

Monash University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Australia is the only Western democracy that does not have a national Human Rights Act, but this may be about to change ...