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 Working Session of the Seychelles Human Rights Treaty Reporting Committee (SHRTRC) on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and Treaty Body Reporting officially opened on Tuesday 7 April 2026 at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The UN Human Rights Committee found South Africa violated fair trial rights in the Boeremag case, given the country a ...

Report takes issue with Bill C-12, says Canada should ensure asylum seekers have “unfettered access” to its territory.

*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 ...

The Houston host committee for the World Cup released the first version of its human rights plan this week. The Human Rights Action Plan, which is 40 pages and available on the committee’s website, ...

The UN Human Rights Committee has found that the Boeremag trial violated the rights of a white supremacist father and his two ...

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 ...

Human Rights Watch is an independent, non-governmental organization that investigates and reports on human rights abuses in more than 90 countries worldwide. We have documented rights violations ...

Winnipeg’s Human Rights Committee of Council has released a draft 2026 workplan outlining an ambitious, city-wide push to embed human rights into municipal decision-making, with priorities ranging ...