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Committee on Human Rights-Carnegie Mellon University Distance Fellowship Program

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 ...
Citizens Commission on Human Rights InternationalOpinion

Europe Rejects Forced Psychiatry: Landmark Vote Declares Coercive Psychiatric Practices Incompatible with Human Rights

Unanimous European rejection of forced psychiatric measures exposes a widening gap between U.S. mental health law and ...
Jurist

UN rights committee finds Guatemala responsible for transgenerational harm to Mayan peoples

The UN Human Rights Committee found Thursday that Guatemala is responsible for violating the rights of multiple generations of Mayan Indigenous peoples who were forcibly displaced during the country’s ...
Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch Submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Germany: List of Issues 78th Session

We write in advance of the 78th Session of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) regarding its preparation and adoption of a list of issues in advance of the full review of ...
Jurist

Government reform urged amid upcoming UN rights review for Vietnam

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 ...
Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Treaty Bodies and Tax

*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 ...
UPI

Why Committee for Human Rights in North Korea must be funded -- now more than ever

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 ...
pv magazine International

UK parliament calls for solar supply chain law, forced labor import ban

Cross-party human rights committee says legislation needed to combat forced labor in solar supply chains, in report urging the UK government to introduce mandatory due diligence measures. Solar Energy ...