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March 14, 2018 Statement

UN Rights Body Needs to Challenge Powerful—and Abusive—China

Item 4 General Debate

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March 13, 2018 News Release

UN: Maintain Pressure for Justice on North Korean Abuses

Discussion in Geneva Spotlights Child Labor, Media, Markets, and Accountability

Tomas Ojea Quintana, special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in North Korea, attends a news conference after his report to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, March 12, 2018.
March 13, 2018 Statement

Burundi in Denial as Rights Abuses Continue with Impunity

Item 4 Interactive Dialogue on Burundi

The seat of Burundi delegation is pictured before a special session of the Human Rights Council on the situation in Burundi in Geneva, Switzerland December 17, 2015.
March 13, 2018 Statement

UN Rights Body Should Renew South Sudan Investigation

Interactive Dialogue with the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan

Women from more than forty South Sudanese womens organizations carry placards during march through the city to express the frustration and suffering that women and children face in Juba, South Sudan on December 9, 2017.
March 13, 2018 Statement

Syria: Need to Address Disappearances, Wrongful Detentions, Disregard for Civilian Lives

Item 4 Interactive Dialogue with the Commission of Inquiry on Syria

Syria Ghouta preview
March 12, 2018 Statement

Eritrea: Rights Abuses Continue Unabated

Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Eritrea

Eritrea protests
March 12, 2018 Statement

Myanmar: Accountability for Ethnic Cleansing Urgently Required

Clustered Interactive Dialogue with Special Rapporteur and Fact-finding Mission on Myanmar

Abdul Kareem, a Rohingya Muslim, carries his mother, Alima Khatoon, to a refugee camp after crossing from Burma into Bangladesh on Sept. 16, 2017.
March 12, 2018 Statement

Strong Measures Needed to Advance Accountability in North Korea

Interactive Dialogue with Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

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March 9, 2018 Statement

A time to stand up for human rights: UN rights body needs to ensure effective outcomes, placing victims first

Interactive Dialogue with High Commissioner for Human Rights

March 8, 2018 Letter

Letter to HRC: Hold DPRK Accountable on Human Rights Violations

March 5, 2018 Statement

UN Rights Body: Move Toward Recognition of the Right to a Healthy and Sustainable Environment

Item 3 interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the environment

Environmental activists chain themselves to a logging machine during an action in the defence of one of the last primeval forests in Europe, Bialowieza forest, Poland May 24, 2017.
March 5, 2018 Statement

Endorsing Safe Schools Declaration important to protect children from horrors of armed conflict

Human Rights Watch statement to HRC panel on Protecting the Rights of the Child in Humanitarian Situations

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March 5, 2018 Dispatches

China’s ‘Win-Win’ Resolution Is Anything But

Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech in the Palais des Nations at the United Nations in Geneva, January 18, 2017.
March 2, 2018 Statement

Past Time to End Impunity for Atrocities in Eastern Ghouta

Urgent Debate on deteriorating situation of human rights in Eastern Ghouta at the Human Rights Council

An elderly man walks near a damaged building in the besieged town of Douma in Eastern Ghouta, Syria.
February 28, 2018 Statement

70 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Closing the Implementation Gap

Human Rights Watch Statement to High-level Panel on 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and 25th Anniversary of the Vienna Declaration and Program of Action

Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, UN high commissioner for human rights, speaks at the 36th Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, September 11, 2017.

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