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Oct 11, 2024 · The Human Rights Council is the main inter-governmental body within the United Nations system responsible for addressing situations of human rights violations. The Council also receives thematic ...
Apr 8, 2024 · The UNHRC resolution is a crucial step, but North Korea’s victims are entitled to greater support from international institutions. The UN General Assembly and Security Council should also ...
Nov 18, 2022 · Since its last review in 2017, India has undergone a serious regression in human rights under the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The ...
Mar 11, 2021 · This attack prompted the Human Rights Council vice president to intervene, warning against “derogatory or inflammatory remarks” against special rapporteurs. China’s delegate resumed his ...
Oct 8, 2020 · France is running on a closed slate with the United Kingdom to be elected to a three-year term on the Human Rights Council at the United Nations. Its election to the Council is therefore a ...
In its March 2014 resolution, the UN Human Rights Council requested that the Office of the High Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR) establish a field office to provide increased support to the ...
Protecting Rights, Saving Lives. World Report 2024, Human Rights Watch’s 34th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.
From mid-2022 through early 2023, the government of Eritrea conducted an intensive forced recruitment campaign, including of 50- to 60-year-old reservists called up to serve in border areas. The ...
Nov 3, 2021 · The UNHRC could seek to create a new Yemen accountability mechanism at its next session in March. But why wait? The General Assembly could establish a standing independent and impartial ...
Oct 2, 2024 · The Human Rights Council should renew for two years the UN mandate for monitoring and reporting, and work on accountability for human rights violations and related crimes in Sri Lanka, Human ...
