The ICCPR is a human rights treaty adopted by the United Nations General Assembly- See more at ICCPR Work - which outlines some broad and fundamental civil and political rights that we should all enjoy, including the rights to self-determination, to life, to found a family, to participate in the electoral process, and to due process and a fair trial. It also provides freedoms from torture, slavery, genocide, and freedoms of movement, speech, expression, conscience, and religion.

 

The US Human Rights Network is working to get full implementation of this treaty into domestic law. A key part of this work is getting social justice groups and other NGOs engaged in the periodic reviews of the U.S. Government before the Human Rights Committee (the Committee). The Committee is the UN body responsibile for montioring compliance with the ICCPR.

 

#HouRs365 is a national human rights campaign,which uses social media on national and international days of action to shed light on human rights violations around the United States. All year, we are dominating social media, tweeting and posting, on the human rights issues around us and the power of the United Nations human rights mechanisms. Together we are weaving our work toward justice, dignity and rights for all in the United States.

Over the course of 2014, we have 4 opportunities to stand for human rights in Geneva during the United Nations Reviews of the United States' compliance with: