Complaints help us stand up against human rights abuses. Filing a human rights complaint begins a process in which allegations of human rights violations are appropriately addressed by the relevant mechanism. Through these processes, individuals, communities, organizations and States all have the ability to ask that violations are prevented
The State Department Leahy law was made permanent under section 620M of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 22 U.S.C. 2378d. The U.S. government considers torture, extrajudicial killing, enforced disappearance, and rape under color of law as GVHRs when implementing the Leahy law. Incidents are examined on a fact-specific basis.
A 2014 United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) report on human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, North Korea) concluded the government committed crimes against
In June, 31 international donors pledged about US$1.35 billion in humanitarian aid for Yemen, far below the $ 2.4 billion the UN agencies required to keep all its programs running in the country
The UK government also continued to fund countries engaged in egregious human rights violations, including Bahrain; obstructed a proposal at the World Trade Organization to waive intellectual
As of August 31, according to Israeli Prison Services figures, Israel held 4,207 Palestinians in custody for “security” offenses, including 153 children, many for throwing stones, and 355 in
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human rights violations by country
