GUATEMALA CITY — A panel of independent experts who make up the United Nations Human Rights Committee said Thursday they found that Guatemala violated the rights of a 14-year-old girl who was raped ...

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 UN Human Rights Committee found on Thursday that Albania violated the rights of three Roma children by failing to register their births, leaving them without legal recognition and at risk of ...

Human Rights Watch said in its submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee on Monday that UN member states should use the upcoming review of Vietnam’s record on civil and political rights ...

In 2019, the Committee on Human Rights (CHR) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) jointly established a distance fellowship program for at-risk scholars unable to pursue their teaching and/or research ...

Thank you for this opportunity to set out Human Rights Watch’s key concerns on Germany’s socioeconomic rights record at this early stage of your review. Our main request to the Committee is to seek ...

*This brief has been updated to reflect new Concluding Observations made by UN Treaty Bodies as of July 8, 2025. Tax policy is inextricably bound up with governments’ human rights obligations. Under ...

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 ...