The ICCPR restricts in article 2 (3) the right to an effective remedy at law to a redress only of the rights and freedoms recognised by the Covenant ... General of the United Nations is requested ...

and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Optional Protocol thereto, as well as such other rights as are set out in other United Nations covenants. Endorsing this ...

The General Assembly, Bearing in mind the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations ... Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and of the International Covenant on ...

The U.N. Human Rights Committee, which monitors the legally-binding 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and was asked ... She is currently on the board of the press association ...

Australia asked to pay compensation for violating rights of asylum seekers in Nauru camps - UN watchdog finds refugees and asylum seekers suffered deterioration of physical and mental health in offsho ...

alleging Australia violated its obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The UN committee determined that Australia failed to explain why the individuals ...

GENEVA (22 January 2025) – A group of independent human rights experts* today expressed concern about the growing practice in Belarus of conducting trials in absentia and without basic fair trial ...

The Norwegian Transparency Act, a broad law mandating that covered companies conduct human rights-related due diligence for their operations and supply chains, went into effect in July 2022.

The United Nations Human Rights Committee has decided that native title law had run roughshod over First Nations rights in deciding against the Wunna Nyiyaparli people. Paul Gregoire reports.