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Committee on Human Rights-Carnegie Mellon University Distance Fellowship Program

In 2019, the Committee on Human Rights (CHR) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) jointly established a distance fellowship program for at-risk scholars unable to pursue their teaching and/or research ...
Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch Submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Germany: List of Issues 78th Session

We write in advance of the 78th Session of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) regarding its preparation and adoption of a list of issues in advance of the full review of ...
Jurist

UN rights committee finds Guatemala responsible for transgenerational harm to Mayan peoples

The UN Human Rights Committee found Thursday that Guatemala is responsible for violating the rights of multiple generations of Mayan Indigenous peoples who were forcibly displaced during the country’s ...
The Morning Sun

Isabella Human Rights Committee to host ‘Let Peace Reign’ event

Mt. Pleasant area residents will soon have the opportunity to celebrate diversity, enjoy live music and participate in kids activities during the Isabella County Human Rights Committee’s “Let Peace ...
Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Treaty Bodies and Tax

*This brief has been updated to reflect new Concluding Observations made by UN Treaty Bodies as of July 8, 2025. Tax policy is inextricably bound up with governments’ human rights obligations. Under ...
UPI

Why Committee for Human Rights in North Korea must be funded -- now more than ever

Oct. 27 (UPI) --At a time when authoritarian regimes are advancing, democracies are wavering and human rights are increasingly treated as optional rather than essential, one small organization ...
The Peninsula Qatar

4th National Human Rights Forum to take place on Tuesday

The 4th National Human Rights Forum, organised by the National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) in partnership with the Ministry of ...