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Country Reports on Human Rights Practices are annual publications on the human rights conditions in countries and regions outside the United States, mandated by U.S. law to be submitted annually by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor of the United States Department of State to the United States Congress.
The report's findings included that a large number of abuses had occurred within Xinjiang, corroborating academic research and public reporting on the abuses in the largely ethnic minority region. [40] The report concluded that human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang are serious and widespread. [43]
The Global Rights Index is a world-wide assessment of trade union and human rights by country. Updated annually in a report issued ... 2023 across 149 countries, ...
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 ...
The United Nations Human Rights Council voted 32–2 on 4 March 2022, with 13 abstentions, to create the International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, an independent committee of three human rights experts with a mandate to investigate alleged violations of human rights and of international humanitarian law in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Giannone reports as an example that, according to Landman and Hausermann (2003), "the index by FH has been used as a tool for measuring democracy, good governance, and human rights, thus producing a conceptual stretching which is a major cause of 'losses in connotative precision': in short, an instrument used to measure everything, in the end ...
Countries designated "electoral democracies" in Freedom House's Freedom in the World 2023 survey, covering the year 2022. [ 2 ] Freedom in the World is a yearly survey and report by the U.S.-based [ 3 ] non-governmental organization Freedom House that measures the degree of civil liberties and political rights in every nation and significant ...
In its 2011 report, the U.S. was ranked 38th in overall human rights. [12] Freedom in the World, published each year since 1972 by the U.S.-based Freedom House, ranks countries by political rights and civil liberties that are derived in large measure from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Countries are assessed as free, partly free, or ...