UN Human Rights Committee

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

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 in treaty form the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and detail …

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Thank You, UN, for Protecting the Rights of Women

February 28, 2018

by Bertrand Ramcharan

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 program going back to the earliest days of the organization. For International Women’s Day, …

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

July 3, 2015

by Rhona Scullion

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 necessary step to return a “common sense” approach to human rights. Yet these plans …

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

January 14, 2014

by Benjamin Foldy

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 a situation that has become an increasingly sore point for the Iraqi, Iranian and …