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UN Human Rights Committee

There’s Another Important Election Coming Soon, and It Concerns Universal Human Rights

Opinion by John Packer
• September 11, 2020

States parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights will elect new experts on Sept. 17 to the Human Rights Committee, which supervises the covenant’s implementation. It is one of the two solemn, widely ratified covenants that codify …

Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS

TOPIC: WOMEN

Thank You, UN, for Protecting the Rights of Women

Bertrand Ramcharan
• February 28, 2018

There is still a long way to go to uphold the rights of women worldwide, and UN Women, a department of the Secretariat, is now carrying the torch in this struggle. It builds on the efforts of the UN human-rights …

Categories: Human Rights, International Justice, Women

OPINIONS

Will Britain Scrap Its Human Rights Act for Something Less Noble?

Opinion by Rhona Scullion
• July 3, 2015

DUNDEE, Scotland — Soon after the newly elected Conservative government in Britain was installed in May, it announced plans to repeal the country’s Human Rights Act with a new Bill of Rights. Advocates of the policy maintain this is a …

Categories: OPINIONS

GOINGS-ON

Jane Holl Lute, US Security Expert, Is Now UN Adviser on Iranian Exiles

Benjamin Foldy
• January 14, 2014

With the appointment of Jane Holl Lute, an American, as his special adviser for relocating the residents of Camp Hurriya, located outside Baghdad in Iraq, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is showing a willingness to take major steps toward resolving …