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The United Nations conference on financing for development should help pave the way for meaningful progress on improving international tax cooperation to benefit everyone’s human rights.
Last week, the United Nations Human Rights Office issued its first ever guidance paper on “transnational repression,” aimed at increasing awareness and understanding of this expanding global ...
Congress should renew the North Korean Human Rights Act, but also urgently exert pressure on the State Department to preserve ...
We still have a ways to go when it comes to protecting universal human rights around the globe The importance of human rights ...
Next week, the United Nations Human Rights Council will vote on renewing the mandate of the independent expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and ...
Those detained were subjected to ‘dehumanizing’ treatment, overcrowding, poor medical care and lack of support despite ...
Human Rights Watch is a co-founder of the Stop Killer Robots campaign, a coalition of more than 270 nongovernmental organizations in 70 countries that calls for a new international treaty to ...
International human rights norms offer useful guidance to international policy debates around taxation, in particular as states are beginning negotiations around a new United Nations tax ...
Human rights need defending now more than ever, which is why the United Nations leadership needs to ensure that its efforts to cut costs don’t jeopardize the UN’s critical human rights work.
Draft Amendments Would Grant Sweeping Powers to Federal GovernmentEthiopian lawmakers should reject proposed amendments to the civil society law that would grant the government sweeping powers to ...
Dear President Macron, I am writing on behalf of Human Rights Watch in the context of your upcoming visit to Vietnam to raise grave concerns about the Vietnamese government’s human rights record ...
Human Rights Watch reiterates its regrets that the European Union continues to hold its human rights dialogue with China, given that no guarantees or improvements have been secured over its past ...