UN Rights Body: Move Toward Recognition of the Right to a Healthy and Sustainable Environment
Item 3 interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the environment
![Environmental activists chain themselves to a logging machine during an action in the defence of one of the last primeval forests in Europe, Bialowieza forest, Poland May 24, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201802europe_poland_environment_logging_protest.jpg?itok=791mNPiJ)
Endorsing Safe Schools Declaration important to protect children from horrors of armed conflict
Human Rights Watch statement to HRC panel on Protecting the Rights of the Child in Humanitarian Situations
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Past Time to End Impunity for Atrocities in Eastern Ghouta
Urgent Debate on deteriorating situation of human rights in Eastern Ghouta at the Human Rights Council
![An elderly man walks near a damaged building in the besieged town of Douma in Eastern Ghouta, Syria.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201802eastern_ghouta_elderlyman.jpg?itok=0aTUS0-J)
70 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Closing the Implementation Gap
Human Rights Watch Statement to High-level Panel on 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and 25th Anniversary of the Vienna Declaration and Program of Action
![Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, UN high commissioner for human rights, speaks at the 36th Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, September 11, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201711asia_srilanka_hrc.jpg?itok=pIB4YsUW)
Cambodia: Reject Draft Amendments to the Constitution and Criminal Code
Joint CSO Statement on Legislative Assault on Rights
"We stand in solidarity with civil society in Hungary"
Joint letter by more than 250 NGOs expressing their "grave concern" over the shrinking space for civil society in Hungary
![People protest in Heroes’ square against a new law that would undermine Central European University, a liberal graduate school of social sciences founded by U.S. financier George Soros in Budapest, Hungary, April 12, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201801europe_hungary_university_protest.jpg?itok=_sWHwQmM)
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UN Security Council Should Act on Congo
Intervention at UN Security Council Arria Formula Meeting – “The Electoral Process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo”
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Behind the Shine: A Call to Action for the Jewelry Industry
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Prominent US Activist Joins Human Rights Watch
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Statement on Compliance, Mine Ban Treaty Sixteenth Meeting of States Parties
Delivered by Steve Goose, Director
Zimbabwe After the Military Takeover: Prospects for Credible Elections and Human Rights Reforms
Testimony of Dewa Mavhinga Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, December 12, 2017