The United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) for the Sudan has released a damning report on ...

United Nations human rights experts issued a damning public critique of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) plans to “sex test” all women athletes.

Noël Barrot following his comments criticizing the UN Human Rights Council-appointed Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and calling for her ...

Ahead of the UN Human Rights Council’s (hereafter “HRC” or “Council”) 61st regular session (23 February – 31 March 2026), we, ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) welcomes the opportunity to provide information to the Special Rapporteur to inform her upcoming report to the United Nations Human Rights Council in its sixty-first session.

Led by Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders Mary Lawlor, five United Nations experts have issued a damning critique of Greece’s latest attempt to criminalize human rights defenders working to ...

On February 11, 2026, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot made comments criticizing the UN Human Rights Council-appointed special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian ...

Human Rights Watch submits this report in advance of the 103rd pre-session of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and its review of El Salvador. The submission focuses on violations of ...

I am writing on behalf of Human Rights Watch to provide information concerning the arbitrary detention and politically motivated prosecution of Guatemalan Indigenous leaders Luis Pacheco and Héctor ...

We write in advance of the 79th session of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (the “Committee”) and its adoption of the list of issues of Egypt. This submission focuses on rising ...