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U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk talks to the media during an end of year press conference, at the European headquarters of the United Nation in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday ...
RIYADH (Reuters) -Rights organisations strongly criticised FIFA on Wednesday after world soccer's ruling body officially awarded the 2034 men's World Cup to Saudi Arabia. Hosting the global ...
The human rights group's report on the war with Hamas in Gaza acknowledges that prevailing interpretations of international law undermine its accusation. Goldberg: The headlines said Amnesty ...
In the 1980s, early United Nations reports on the HIV/AIDS pandemic made some reference to homosexuality.. In its 1994 decision in Toonen v.Australia, the UN Human Rights Committee—which is responsible for the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)—declared that laws criminalizing consensual same-sex relations between adults are in violation of international human ...
Human rights abuses are monitored by United Nations committees, national institutions and governments and by many independent non-governmental organizations, such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, World Organisation Against Torture, Freedom House, International Freedom of Expression Exchange and Anti-Slavery International. These ...
The OHCHR Assessment of human rights concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China is a report published on 31 August 2022 by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) concerning the treatment of Uyghurs and other largely Muslim groups in China.
International human rights law (IHRL) is the body of international law designed to promote human rights on social, regional, and domestic levels. As a form of international law, international human rights law is primarily made up of treaties, agreements between sovereign states intended to have binding legal effect between the parties that have agreed to them; and customary international law.
The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic was set up by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on 22 August 2011 to investigate human rights violations during the Syrian Civil War, to establish the facts and circumstances that may amount to violations and crimes and, where possible, to identify those responsible so that they can be held ...