HRA Interventions to the United Nations

Commission on the Status of Women

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

• Anti-Trafficking in Persons Efforts and the Market for the Sexual Abuse of Girl Children
• 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

Human Rights Council

2010 13th Session

• The Right to the Truth: Beyond the Armed Conflicts
• 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 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 – The Proliferation of Private Military and Security Companies and Ensuring Accountability for Human Rights Violations
• 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

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

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

Commission on Human Rights

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 Death Penalty and Life Imprisonment with the Possibility of Relase for Youth Offenders Who Were Under the Age of 18 at the Time of the Offense
• 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

Sub-Commission on Human Rights

2002 54th Session

• Women and human rights (focus on Afganistan)