GENEVA — For the first time in nine years, the United Nations Human Rights Committee this week reviewed U.S. compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The ...

Liberia’s Compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Joint Follow-Up Report on Impunity and Past Human Rights Violations ...

Thirty years later, the UN passed the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). Article 25 is the international guarantee of voting rights: “Every citizen shall have the ...

The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) is one of the most important international human rights laws. In this treaty, countries — including the U.S. — agreed to protect a ...

In its very first statement on the application of human rights in situations of armed conflict, the 1996 Advisory Opinion on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, the International ...

The Cambodian Human Rights Committee has denounced Thailand’s unilateral closure of border crossings as a grave violation of ...

On 26 May 2025, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) published a shadow report ahead of the review of Vietnam’s fourth periodic report by the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee ...

On January 5th, 2024, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) submitted a report to the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee (CCPR) on selected civil and political rights in Vietnam ...

HARARE, March 10, (NewsDay Live) - Zimbabwe says it has made significant progress in strengthening civil and political rights, with key legislative reforms aligning national laws with the ...

A panel of independent experts who make up the United Nations Human Rights Committee says they have found that Guatemala violated the rights of a 14-year-old girl who was raped and forced to continue ...