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August 20, 2025 Dispatches

Progress on the Road to a UN Tax Treaty

Negotiations a Historic Opportunity to Advance Socio-Economic Rights

The UN General Assembly Hall, New York, September 24, 2024.

August 20, 2025 Background Briefing

Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper on the Human Rights Situation in the Russian Federation

Update on human rights in the Russian Federation and the need to renew the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur

August 20, 2025 News Release

Sri Lanka: Police Target Families of ‘Disappeared’

UN Human Rights Council Should Monitor Repression, Counterterrorism Law Abuses

Tamils perform rituals in memory of their deceased family members on the strip of land in Mullivaikkal where civilians were trapped in 2009 during the final weeks of the civil war in Sri Lanka, May 17, 2024.

August 20, 2025 Letter

Burundi: As Risk Factors Multiply, Extend the Special Rapporteur's Mandate

Joint Letter by NGOs to the United Nations Human Rights Council - HRC60

August 18, 2025 Background Briefing

Human Rights Watch Briefing on the Human Rights Situation in Sri Lanka

Addressing Past and Ongoing Human Rights Abuses

The United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, June 13, 2022.

August 15, 2025 News Release

Sri Lanka: UN Rights Report Details Security Force Abuses

UN Human Rights Council Should Adopt Resolution that Promotes Accountability

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk holds a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 26, 2025.

August 15, 2025 Letter

Sudan: Extend the mandate of the Fact-Finding Mission for two more years

To Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (Geneva, Switzerland)

August 15, 2025 Statement

Submission to the United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan: Recommendations on Accountability Options and Efforts for Sudan

August 15, 2025

July 23, 2025 UPR

Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Georgia

51st Session of the United Nations Universal Periodic Review

July 22, 2025 News Release

UN: End Impunity for Israeli Crimes Against Palestinians

Demand Targeted Sanctions, Arms Embargo, Trade Measures at High-Level UN Conference

A boy stands amid the ruins of a collapsed building following Israeli bombardment in the Bureij camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip, May 23, 2025.

July 18, 2025 UPR

Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Rwanda

51st session of the United Nations Universal Periodic Review

July 17, 2025 UPR

Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Australia

51st session of the United Nations Universal Periodic Review

July 16, 2025 UPR

Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Lebanon

51st session of the United Nations Universal Periodic Review

July 14, 2025 Dispatches

Standing Firm on Women’s Right to Live Free of Violence

UN Women’s Rights Body Asserts Existing International Law Amid Backlash

Protesters march against gender-based violence in front of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, South Africa, September 13, 2019.

July 11, 2025 Statement

Strong Push Back Against US Sanctions on the International Criminal Court at UN Human Rights Council

Joint Statement - ICJ, IBAHRI & HRW - HRC59

International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, April 30, 2024.

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