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The United Nations Human Rights Committee is a treaty body composed of 18 experts, established by a 1966 human rights treaty, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The Committee meets for three four-week sessions per year to consider the periodic reports submitted by the 173 States parties to the ICCPR on their ...
Portillo Cáceres v Paraguay[a] (Communication No.2751/2016) was a case decided by the United Nations Human Rights Committee in 2019. The case was initiated by a group of farmers in Paraguay who lived next to soybean plantations that had been using illegal agrochemicals. Contamination from negligent practices had resulted negative health ...
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [a] is a United Nations body whose mission is to promote and protect human rights around the world. [3] The Council has 47 members elected for staggered three-year terms on a regional group basis. [4] The headquarters of the Council are at the United Nations Office at Geneva in Switzerland.
Resolution adopted. United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES‑11/3 is a resolution of the eleventh emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly, adopted on 7 April 2022. The resolution suspended the membership of Russia in the United Nations Human Rights Council over "grave concern at the ongoing human rights and ...
UN Human Rights Office report on Xinjiang. 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 ...
Report of the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Commissioners Marzuki Darusman, Sonja Biserko, and Michael Kirby (from left to center) presenting their report at the United Nations in 2014. Cover of the Korean version of the Report Presented 7 February 2014 (general distribution) Location Geneva, Switzerland, United Nations Human Rights Council ...
Toonen v. Australia was a landmark human rights complaint brought before the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) by Tasmanian resident Nicholas Toonen in 1994. [1] The case resulted in the repeal of Australia 's last sodomy laws when the Committee held that sexual orientation was included in the antidiscrimination provisions as a ...
The Committee Against Torture (CAT) is a treaty body of human rights experts that monitors implementation of the United Nations Convention against Torture by state parties. The committee is one of eight UN-linked human rights treaty bodies. [4][5] All state parties are obliged under the convention to submit regular reports to the CAT on how ...