Submission to the United Nations

UPR of the United States of America
2014: Updated Submission for the UPR regarding life-without-the possibility of release or parole sentences for children in the United States
2010: Report: Juvenile life without possibility of parole (“JLWOP”), the death row phenomena, corporate accountability in the context of immigrant detention, and racial inequality and affirmative action.
2019 63rd Session
Barriers to NGO Access at the CSW
2018 62nd Session
Rural Women’s Intellectual Property Protections
Rural Women and Girls’ Land Tenure Rights
2017 61st Session
Treatment of Migrant Workers
Global Maternity Protection
The Gender Wage Gap in Today’s Global Workforce
Discrimination Against Women in the Workplace
2016 60th Session
Examining Industrial Agriculture And Its Effects On Women Through The Framework Of The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Income Inequality And Its Role In Sustainable Development
2015 59th Session
Combating Trafficking Through Education at the S0urce, inTransit, and at the Destination
Legal Recourse and Accountability for Sex Trafficking
2014 58th Session
Achieving the MDGs by Increasing the Political Participation of Women
Combatting Trafficking
Policy and Practice Harvesting the Economic Empowerment of Women in order to Eradicate Poverty and Extreme Hunger
2013 57th Session
Human Rights NGOs-Participation in the UN, its organs and specialized agencies
Protection Orders and Shelters – Empowering Intimate Partner Violence Survivors
Establishing an Effective Framework to Address School-Related Gender-Based Violence
Addressing Gender Discrimination and Violence Against Women and Girls
2012 56th Session
Food Security, Rural Women and Personal Security
Breaking the Cycle of Chronic Malnutrition:A Successful Solution Starts with Rural Women
2011 56th Session
Anchoring Food Security Amongst Rural Women Subsistence Farmers: Ghana as a Model
2011 55th Session
Promoting Education and Employment for Women and Girls as Foundations for Effective Human Trafficking Prevention
Increasing Attention and Addressing Gender-Based Discrimination, Harrassment And Violence Against Girls In Education as a Means of Achieving the MDGs/EFA Goals
2010 54th Session
Ensuring Women’s Human Rights: Moving Beyond Declarations to Implementation and Enforcement (short statement)
Ensuring Women’s Human Rights: Moving Beyond Declarations to Implementation and Enforcement
The Vulnerability of Migrant Women to Violence: A Report on Employer and State-Based Violence Against Migrant Women, and Recommendations for Prevention
2009 53rd Session
Medical Consequences of Sexual Exploitation of Refugees by Peacekeepers and Humanitarian Aid Workers
Transnational Domestic Workers: Protecting Women’s Human Rights to Work, Mobility, and Freedom from Sexual and Racial Discrimination
Caring for the Displaced: Combating Sexual Exploitation and HIV/AIDS Among Refugee Camps by Increasing Women’s Participation
2008 52nd Session
Financing for the Eradication of Physical and Sexual Violence Against Women
Preventing and Combating Trafficking of Women and Children for Sexual Exploitation
Financing to End Impunity for Perpetrators of Sexual Violence and Other Forms of Gender Based Violence during Armed Conflict and in Post-Conflict Situations
2007 51st Session
The Global Problem of Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation
2006 50th Session
The Role of Military Demand in Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation
2005 49th Session
Military Personnel’s Role in the Trafficking of Women and Girls
To Protect the Human Rights of Migrant Women and Children, National Labor Laws Must Not Discriminate on the Basis of Immigration Status
Integration of the Human Rights of Women and the Gender Perspective: Violence Against Women
2003 47th Session
Trafficking in women and children and UN peacekeeping forces
2002 46th Session
Prevention of Natural Disasters: An examination of water and deforestation challenges
2022 49th Session
The Effects of Climate Change on Human Rights
The Right to Food in the Face of Globalization and Corporate Consolidation
Human Rights Violations by Private Corporations in Detention Facilities
2020 43rd Session
Ending Criminalization and Discrimination Based on Housing Status
Countering Terrorism – Human Rights Abuses in Re-education Camps
The Rights of the Child- Exploitation of Children- Social Media Grooming
Access to Information and Communication Technologies for Persons with Disabilities
Right to Food – Fishery Workers Rights
Growing Need for a Global Minimum Standard of Care for Personal Data Protection and for Special Protections for Vulnerable Populations
2019 40th Session
The Use of Lethal Drones in Counter-Terrorism Operations
Combating the Water Crisis to Ensure a Sustainable Environment
Ensuring Access to Inclusive Education for Children with Disabilities: Deinstitutionalization and Desegregation
Data Privacy – How a Lack of Uniformity is Detrimental to Progress
2018 37th Session
Reparations for Torture: Helping Women and Girls
Protection of Journalists as Human Rights Defenders
The Human Cost of Economic Sanctions: A Comprehensive Approach
Planting a Seed: How Knowledge, Education, and Cohesive Effort Can Aid the Environment
Rights of the Child: Sale of Children, The Phenomenon of Illegal Adoptions
How Foreign Debt Impacts the Enjoyment of Human Rights
2017 34th Session
The Right to Privacy: Mass Surveillance and Metadata Retention by States
Ending the Sale of Children for Forced Labor
Protecting the Right of Education for Children in Armed Conflict
In the Interest of Societal Development – Aligning Government and Business Interests to Address Foreign Debt
Cultural Rights as Hindered and Defined by Cultural Relativism/Universality and Extremism/Fundamentalism
Worldwide Abolition of the Death Penalty
2016 31st Session
Enforcing the Rights of Children in the Juvenile Justice System
The Right to Food, Undermined by Threats to Indigenous Peoples’ Land Security from REDD+ Projects and Agro-Industrial Practices
Death Penalty and the Prohibition Against Torture and Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Protecting the Right to Adequate Housing in Mega-Projects
Protecting Cultural Heritage as Part of the Right to Culture
8th Session of the Expert Mechanism on Rights of Indigenous Peoples
The Accountability and Responsibility Transnational Corporations, Business Enterprises, and Governments have in Promoting and Protecting the Rights of Indigenous Peoples under International Standards
2015 28th Session
Children and Private Detention Centers
Mega Events and the Right to Housing
Transboundary and Extraterritorial Water Pollution
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development
Methods for Addressing Ongoing Torture
The Plight of Unaccompanied Migrant Children
2014 25th Session
Promoting Cultural Rights Through Heritage Laws
Promoting Right to Food Through Food Sovereignty
The Need for Moratoriums on Sentencing
The Right To Vote
EXTREME CRIMINAL SENTENCING FOR JUVENILES
The Right to Housing
E-WASTE AN EX OF HOW COORDINATED EFFORT IS NEEDED TO ADDRESS HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES
2013 22nd Session
Human Rights Implications of Private Prisons
Human Rights and the Environment-Strengthening Regulation of Improper Transboundary and National Movements of Hazardous Waste and Disposal
Child Malnutrition-A Crisis Without Borders
The Death Row Phenomenon-The Need to Call for Moratoriums on Sentencing
Special Measures to Ensure Minority Political Participation in Post-Conflict Scenarios
Extreme Criminal Sentences-Violations of International Standards
2012 19th Session
Prison Privatization and Prison Labor: The Human Rights Implications
Death Row Phenomenon
Juvenile Sentencing Schemes
Human Rights Defenders and the Right to Vote
Mega-Events, Urban Development, and Human Rights: The Duty to Prevent and Protect Against Evictions and Ensure the Right to Adequate Housing
The Right to Food: International Discourse Versus Global Eradication of Hunger The Threat of Improper Food Aid and Land Acquisitions
2011 16th Session
Violence Against Children Deprived of Liberty
The Human Rights Implications of Private Prisons
Violations of the Prohibition Against Torture
Issues in Juvenile Justice – Juvenile Sentencing and Detention Practices
Right to Political Participation
Food Sovereignty: A Strategy for the Realization of the Right to Food
2011 Commentary on Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights
Guiding Principles Joint Commentary
2010 15th Session
The Need for Regulation of Private Military and Security Companies
2010 14th Session
Corporate Accountability: The State Duty to Protect and Mandating Social and Human Rights Reporting
2010 13th Session
The Right to Vote: The Need for a Special Procedure
Counter-terrorism and the Protection of Human Rights
Juvenile Sentencing and Alternatives to Incarceration of Juvenile Offenders
Privatized Prisons and Human Rights
Violations of the Prohibition of Torture: The Death Row Phenomenon
Food Sovereignty: A Strategy for the Progressive
2009 11th Session
Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Violations Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Violations
2009 10th Session
The Human Right to Water – An Imperative
Land Grabbing for Food & Fuel Outsourcing: A Rising Threat to the Right to Food
The Right to Vote: A Basic Human Right in Need of Protection
Leyes de Acceso a la Información Pública: favorecen la participación ciudadana y el trabajo de los Defensores de Derechos Humanos
Bridging Accountability Gaps over Private Military and Security Companies
Counter-terrorism and the Protection of Human Rights
The Arbitrary Detention of Migrants
2008 7th Session
Holding Private Military and Security Companies and Mercenaries Accountable for Human Rights Violations
Protecting the Human Rights of Migrant Workers: at Borders, during Immigration Raids, in Detention Centers, and in the Workplace
The Human Right to Water
The Human Rights Impact of the Illicit Transfer and Dumping of Toxic Wastes and Dangerous Substance
Juvenile Death Penalty and Juvenile Life without the Possibility of Release
Torture as a Method of Suppressing Political Dissent in Selected Emerging Democracies in Eastern Africa
The Right to Vote: Defining and Protecting an Essential Human Right
2007 4th Session
The Illicit Transfer and Dumping of Toxic Waste
The Death Row Phenomenon
Migrants and the Right to Life
Sexual Exploitation by Military and Peacekeepers
Violence Against Women In Times Of Armed Conflict
Imprisoning Children for Life without Possibility of Release
The Right to Vote
2008 72nd Session
Reviews of U.S. 4th, 5th and 6th Periodic Reports
HRA’s shadow report on migrants, Hoffman Plastics, affirmative action, and juvenile life without possibility of parole sentencing
2015 156th Period of Sessions
Request for Hearing on the Right to Water
2006 62nd Session
The Right to Water
The Right to Vote, Arbitrary Detention, and Freedom of Association
Integration of the Human Rights of Women and the Gender Perspective/Trafficking
Juvenile Criminal Sentencing
The Rights of Migrant Workers
2005 61st Session
The Transboundary Transfer of Toxics: the Adverse Effect of E-Waste and Pesticides on Human Rights
Migrant Workers’ Rights to Organize
Border Deaths and Arbitrary Detention and Migrant Workers
Civil and Political Rights: Voting Rights and Arbitrary Detention
2004 60th Session
Adverse Effects of Illicit Movement and Dumping of Toxic Wastes on the Enjoyment of Human Rights
Arbitrary Detention and the War on Terrorism
Military Role in Creating and Perpetuating Demand for the Trafficking of Women and Children
Rights of the Child: Juvenile Death Penalty
Migrant Worker Rights
Death Penalty, Death Row and Human Rights
Right to Development and Water
2003 59th Session
The Problem of Demand for Trafficked Women and Children and the Role of Military and UN Peacekeeping Troops in the Exploitation of Women and Children
The juvenile death penalty
Violations of Migrant Workers’ Rights
Arbitrary detention and the war on terrorism
The impact of toxic wastes on human rights
2002 58th Session
Healthy environment
Arbitrary detentions, military tribunals
Violence against women
Rights of the child
Migrant workers
2001 57th Session
Independence of the Judiciary, Impunity
Migrant worker rights
Juvenile Death penalty
Violence against women
Rights of the Child
2002 54th Session
Women and human rights (focus on Afganistan)