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December 1, 2025 Submission

El Salvador: Submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

103rd Pre-Sessional Working Group - Consideration of State Report

November 26, 2025 Dispatches

UN Should Protect its Long Underfunded Human Rights Pillar

Mechanisms Responding to Grave Crises Need to be Preserved

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York, September 23, 2025.

November 24, 2025 Statement

Submission on North Korea’s Implementation of Recommendations from the Third and Fourth Cycles of the Universal Periodic Review for the Special Rapporteur’s Report

61st Session of the Human Rights Council

November 24, 2025 Dispatches

Seventy-Nine Years Without a Woman Leader at the UN

Selection of New Secretary-General a Chance to Live Its Values

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks at the United Nations headquarters in New York City, US, September 23, 2025.

November 14, 2025 Statement

Addendum to CEDAW General Recommendation No.30 on the Women Peace and Security Agenda

Human Rights Watch Submission

November 14, 2025 Statement

Sudan: Accountability Crucial to Stop Atrocities in El Fasher and Prevent Further Escalation

HRW Oral Statement - UN Human Rights Council 38th Special Session - The Human Rights Situation in and around El Fasher, in the Context of the Ongoing Conflict in the Sudan

A desk bearing signs of shelling in a school where displaced people were sheltering, in El Fasher, Sudan, October 7, 2025.

November 12, 2025 Dispatches

UN Rights Body Set to Hold Urgent Session on Sudan

Ensure Rigorous Investigations to Pave Way for Accountability

A desk bearing signs of shelling in a school where displaced people were sheltering, in El Fasher, Sudan, October 7, 2025.

November 7, 2025 Dispatches

US Skips UN Periodic Rights Review

Civil Society Groups Flag Backsliding on Rights

Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 16, 2025.

November 3, 2025 Letter

Sudan: Joint Appeal for a UN HRC special session on the situation in and around El Fasher, North Darfur

The Human Rights Council should convene a special session on Sudan to address the situation in and around El Fasher, North Darfur, and ensure urgent investigations

October 27, 2025 News Release

UN: Momentum Builds for Crimes Against Humanity Treaty

Would Strengthen Efforts to Prosecute World’s Worst Atrocities

United Nations Headquarters in New York City, US, July 16, 2024.

October 24, 2025 Commentary

UN Treaty Signing Highlights Vietnam’s Curb on Online Dissent

The Cybercrime Convention will further entrench control and surveillance over peaceful expression of dissent online beyond the borders of repressive states.

October 24, 2025 News Release

World Court: Israel Needs to Allow UN Aid into Gaza

Critical for Governments to Publicly Support, Fund UNRWA

Workers stand in front of the ruins of a school building

October 14, 2025 Dispatches

UN Meeting Seeks to Embed Human Rights in New Economic Indicators

Highlights Transformative Potential of Moving Beyond GDP

The artwork "Non Violence" by artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd before the start of the United Nations Future Summit in New York, September 21, 2024.

October 14, 2025 Dispatches

UN Rights Council Strengthens Crucial Protections

States, Civil Society Groups Demonstrate Power to Make a Difference

Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 16, 2025.

October 10, 2025 UPR

Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Niger

52nd Session

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