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According to the Human Rights Commission of the City and County of San Francisco, as of 2005, Intersex people in the United States have gaps in protections for physical integrity and bodily autonomy, particularly in protection from non-consensual cosmetic medical interventions and violence, and protection from discrimination.
Right to truth is the right, in the case of grave violations of human rights, for the victims and their families or societies to have access to the truth of what happened. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The right to truth is closely related to, but distinct from, the state obligation to investigate and prosecute serious state violations of human rights.
The Virginia NAACP filed a lawsuit Friday alleging Gov. Glenn Youngkin's administration failed to turn over public records to explain how it decides whether to restore the voting rights of ...
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (the IACHR) is an autonomous organ of the Organization of American States, also based in Washington, D.C. Along with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, based in San José, Costa Rica, it is one of the bodies that comprise the inter-American system for the promotion and protection of human ...
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) interprets and enforces the Equal Pay Act, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title I and V of the Americans With Disabilities Act, Sections 501 and 505 of the Rehabilitation Act, and the Civil Rights Act of 1991. [109] The Commission was ...
Last week, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate possible “systemic violations” by the cops, citing racial disparity in complaint dismissal rates. “Trust in the Chicago Police Department is broken, especially in communities of color in the City of Chicago,” she wrote.
In 2008, Human Rights Watch published a report comparing United States victims' rights laws to international human rights standards, which found that "while U.S. Jurisdictions, both federal and state, have made significant progress in recent decades, much more can be done to ensure that victims' rights and legitimate interests are upheld."
The Commission on Inquiry, mandated by the Human Rights Council, has found the Syrian government while working with allied militias, has committed large-scale massacres, perpetrated war crimes and gross violations of international humanitarian law as a matter of state policy.