International Advocacy

We monitor and document human rights conditions in countries around the world, and call attention to those conditions at the United Nations and regional human rights bodies through submitting reports, making oral and written statements, and directly participating in human rights body meetings and reviews of treaty compliance. We partner with human rights defenders to conduct fact-finding and reporting and to increase their capacity to improve laws and policies for better protection of human rights in their countries through advocacy at the local and national level, and—as needed—at the United Nations and other international bodies.

See our submissions with civil society partners to international human rights mechanisms on death penalty abolition; detention conditions; torture; rights of refugees and non-citizens; rights of LGBTQI+ individuals; rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities; and rights of women and girls. 

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