• The United Nations Human Rights Committee is a treaty body composed of 18 experts, established by a 1966 human rights treaty, the International Covenant...
    36 KB (3,596 words) - 03:05, 24 August 2024
  • The United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) was a functional commission within the overall framework of the United Nations from 1946 until it...
    23 KB (2,690 words) - 21:13, 3 August 2024
  • United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is a department of the United Nations Secretariat that works to promote and protect human rights...
    26 KB (2,722 words) - 14:07, 8 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Universal Declaration of Human Rights
    Declaration of Human Rights The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is an international document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly...
    88 KB (9,189 words) - 01:38, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for United Nations Human Rights Council
    Secretary-General, 2007 The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is a United Nations body whose mission is to promote and protect human rights around the world...
    161 KB (15,201 words) - 03:50, 28 August 2024
  • The United Nations Prizes in the Field of Human Rights were instituted by United Nations General Assembly in 1966. They are intended to "honour and commend...
    13 KB (1,318 words) - 20:10, 19 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for United Nations special rapporteur
    groups. United Nations Human Rights Committee Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights United Nations Commission on Human Rights United...
    44 KB (1,124 words) - 15:41, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Convention on the Rights of the Child
    The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (commonly abbreviated as the CRC or UNCRC) is an international human rights treaty which sets...
    74 KB (6,926 words) - 09:24, 31 August 2024
  • Declaration of Human Rights was drafted between early 1947 and late 1948 by a committee formed by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. Further discussion...
    12 KB (1,417 words) - 18:22, 18 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Human rights in Canada
    led to condemnation by many human rights bodies including the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. In 2015 the Canadian government...
    93 KB (11,702 words) - 20:41, 7 July 2024