Our Shadow Report to the UN Human Rights Council
In April 2026, a coalition* submitted a Shadow Report, The United States Abridges the Human Right to Bodily Autonomy, to the UN Human Rights Committee for the 53rd Session Universal Periodic Review (4th Cycle), United States of America.
View or download the submission below.
*Coalition members include: World Without Genocide, Compassion & Choices, Genocide Watch, ImPact Coalition on Strengthening International Judicial Institutions, Gender Justice, and Transparenthood.
The United States did not show up for its scheduled Universal Periodic Review in November 2025. Read more.
- Genocides and Justice
- Afghanistan
- Argentina
- Armenia: Nagorno-Karabakh
- Background and Overview Information
- Bangladesh
- Bodily Autonomy
- Book Banning – First Amendment
- Bosnia
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- China – The Uyghurs
- Selected Bibliography
- China, Tibet, and the Uyghurs
- Forced Organ Harvesting
- High-tech genocides: From the Jews to the Uyghurs
- “I was feared” – China’s long arm reaches Uyghurs
- It’ll take more than food aid to counter Uyghur genocide
- Persecution of the Uighurs must be opposed
- The Uyghur Ethnocide – How to Erase a People
- World must confront China, protect the vulnerable
- Uyghur Immigration Pathways into Canada
- China – Tibet
- Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Ecocide and the Climate Crisis
- Ethiopia
- Gaza
- Genocide of the Armenians
- Guatemala
- Holocaust
- Antisemitism is surging. Here’s a primer.
- Beyond Anne Frank
- Christian nationalism and the far right
- Echoes of 1933?
- Exploring the role of rail systems in genocide
- Incitement and Genocide: The Holocaust and Rwanda
- Nazi Extermination of Russian POWs
- Nuremburg Trials
- Operation Paperclip: Nazis and the U.S. Space Program
- Remembering the Holocaust
- The Forgotten Holocaust and The Continued Persecution of the Romani
- Truth and Concentration Camps
- WWII – The Right to Steal: How the U.S. Government Enabled the Looting of Japanese Property
- India
- Iran
- Iraqi Kurdistan
- Know Your Rights: Threat of Detention
- Landmark Treaty: The Ljubljana-Hague Convention
- Laos
- Liberian Civil War
- Myanmar – The Rohingya
- Namibia – The Herero and Nama
- Native Americans
- A Framework for Reconciliation: The 94 Calls to Action and Redress for Canada’s Residential School Genocide
- American and Canadian Indigenous Boarding Schools and Mass Graves
- Indian Boarding Schools
- On Indigenous Peoples Day, recalling forced sterilizations of Native American women
- Our ‘disappeareds’: Minnesota must examine issue of missing Indian women
- The Use of Native Boarding Schools as a Form of Genocide in the United States
- U.S. Department of the Interior’s 2022 report on Indian Boarding Schools
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Putumayo Genocide
- Racial Issues: Being denied voting rights is a form of ‘civil death’
- Refugee Issues: Nowhere to call home
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Somalia
- Sudan – Darfur – South Sudan
- Syria
- Taiwan
- The Genocide of the Roma
- The Ottoman Christian Genocide
- The World in Initials
- Transgender Rights
- Transnational Repression: A Global Problem
- Ukraine
- Babyn Yar, Ukraine
- Contemporary Russian Expansionism
- From the Holocaust to Ukraine: Enforced Disappearances – A Crime against Humanity
- Help People in Ukraine
- Holodomor
- Prosecuting War Crimes in Ukraine
- Putin continues the Russian history of war and genocide in Ukraine
- Putin, war crimes and war criminals
- Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: The treatment of non-Ukrainian refugees
- The cases that can be made against Vladimir Putin
- Ukraine Selected Bibliography
- When citizens disappear at the hand of the state
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Women’s Rights
- Yemen