The submission was prepared on behalf of the families by human rights organizations Legal Action Worldwide and Truth Hounds.

The Committee on Human Rights (CHR) is a standing membership committee of the United States National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and National Academy of Medicine. It serves ...

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 ...

The United Nations Human Rights Committee has ruled that Australia breached international human rights law by detaining a group of young asylum seekers in immigration detention in Nauru. The 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 ...

This submission to the United Nations Committee Against Torture (“the Committee”) ahead of its upcoming review of Türkiye highlights areas of concern Human Rights Watch hopes will inform the Committee ...

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 ...

The committee charged with hosting the FIFA World Cup in Philadelphia released its plan to address human rights during the ...

WASHINGTON — A coalition of civil and human rights and social justice groups today officially announced their campaign for a National Human Rights Institution (NHRI) in the U.S. as they briefed ...

Australia is the only Western democracy that does not have a national Human Rights Act, but this may be about to change. After an inquiry lasting more than a year, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on ...