UN Human Rights Committee
- 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…
- Categories: Human Rights, WORLDVIEWS
- 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…
- Categories: Human Rights, International Justice, Women
- 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…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- 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…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON