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Human rights in Qatar
Human rights in Qatar cover the hereditary emirate's political restrictions, kafala labor reforms for its 2 million migrant workers, male guardianship rules for women, criminalization of same-sex relations, and statelessness of the Ghufran clan.
Human rights in the Philippines
Human rights in the Philippines: record spans Marcos-era martial law abuses, Duterte's drug war with at least 8,663 official deaths and persistent impunity, red-tagging of activists, and Duterte's 2025 ICC arrest.
Human rights in the United Arab Emirates
Human rights in the United Arab Emirates: constitutional guarantees alongside severe restrictions on expression, mass trials of dissidents, kafala migrant labor abuses, banned unions, and resumed executions.
Human rights in the United States
Human rights in the United States, also called American civil liberties, rest on the Bill of Rights and civil rights statutes plus ratified ICCPR, CAT, and CERD treaties, with no single enforcement statute, no federal data protection law, and declining 2026 ratings.
Human rights lawyer
A human rights lawyer is a legal professional who uses impact litigation, fact-finding, and advocacy to defend rights, working across NGOs, courts, governments, and UN bodies.
Human Rights Quarterly
Human Rights Quarterly (HRQ) is a quarterly multidisciplinary human rights journal published by Johns Hopkins University Press, edited by Bert B. Lockwood at the University of Cincinnati's Urban Morgan Institute, the most productive human rights journal in Web of Science with 731 papers, 1990-2020.
Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario
Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (Tribunal des droits de la personne de l'Ontario), quasi-judicial tribunal resolving discrimination and harassment claims under the Ontario Human Rights Code; one-year filing limit, mediation, summary and merits hearings, part of Tribunals Ontario.
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch (HRW), founded 1978 as Helsinki Watch, is an independent international NGO investigating human rights abuses in some 100 countries, refusing government funding, and advocating via naming and shaming.
Human trafficking
Human trafficking, or trafficking in persons, is recruiting or moving people by coercion, deception, or abuse of vulnerability for exploitation, defined by the 2000 Palermo Protocol. An estimated 27.6 million people were in forced labour in 2021, generating $236 billion in annual illegal profits.
Human trafficking in the United States
Human trafficking in the United States, defined under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 as sex trafficking or forced labor, covering federal legislation, prevalence estimates, enforcement, task forces, and victim services.
Humanitarian intervention
Humanitarian intervention: use of armed force by states or coalitions to stop mass atrocities abroad, without target-state consent. Key cases Kosovo 1999 (illegal but legitimate), Libya 2011 (R2P, Resolution 1973), Syria failure; legality contested under UN Charter Article 2(4).
Humberto Álvarez Machaín
Humberto Álvarez Machaín, Mexican physician abducted by DEA-hired agents in 1990 for the Camarena murder case; his trial and acquittal produced the 1992 Supreme Court abduction ruling and the 2004 Sosa ATS decision.
Humphrey Waldock
Sir Humphrey Waldock (1904–1981), British international lawyer; Chichele Professor at Oxford, ILC Special Rapporteur on the law of treaties and state succession, and President of the European Court of Human Rights 1971–1974.
Hung jury
Hung jury, or deadlocked jury: a jury unable to reach the required voting margin for a verdict, causing a mistrial. Key facts: retrial allowed despite double jeopardy, US unanimity rule, roughly 2.5% federal hung rate.
Hungarian irredentism
Hungarian irredentism, also called Hungarian revisionism, is the movement seeking return of territories lost by the 1920 Treaty of Trianon, ideally as Greater Hungary (Nagy-Magyarország).
Hunt family murders
Hunt family murders covers two unrelated cases: the 2014 Lockhart, NSW murder-suicide by Geoff Hunt of his wife and three children, and the 2024 Bushey, England crossbow murders of John Hunt's family by Kyle Clifford.
Hunter Moore
Hunter Edward Moore is an American convicted criminal from Sacramento, California, who ran the revenge porn site Is Anyone Up? and was sentenced to federal prison in 2015.
Huntsville Unit
Huntsville Unit (Walls Unit) is the Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison in Huntsville, Texas, opened in 1849 as the state's first penitentiary and the site where Texas executions are carried out.
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (1892–1963) was a Bengali barrister and politician who served as chief minister of undivided Bengal and Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1956 to 1957.
Hushpuppi
Hushpuppi is the online alias of Ramon Olorunwa Abbas (born 1982), a Nigerian Instagram influencer sentenced in 2022 to 135 months in US federal prison for money laundering.
Hutch–Kinahan feud
The Hutch–Kinahan feud is a violent conflict between two Dublin-based crime gangs that began with the murder of Gary Hutch in Spain in 2015, leaving 18 dead.
Huyton Firm
The Huyton Firm, also known as the Cantril Farm Cartel, was an organized crime group in Merseyside, England. It was run by brothers Vincent and Francis Coggins.
Hyde Amendment
Hyde Amendment: annual US appropriations rider, first passed September 30, 1976, named for Rep. Henry Hyde, barring federal abortion funding except for rape, incest, or life endangerment; upheld in Harris v. McRae (1980).
Hylton v. United States
Hylton v. United States, 3 U.S. 171 (1796), the first Supreme Court ruling on direct taxes, upheld the 1794 carriage tax as an indirect excise, limiting direct taxes to capitation and land taxes, and prefigured judicial review before Marbury.
Hyman Roth
Hyman Roth is the fictional Jewish mobster in The Godfather Part II (1974), played by Lee Strasberg in his film debut and based on gangster Meyer Lansky; Roth draws Michael Corleone into Havana casino schemes before betraying him, earning Strasberg a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination.
Hymie Weiss
Hymie Weiss (Earl Weiss, born Wojciechowski/Wajciechowski), Polish-American Chicago bootlegger who led the North Side Gang, Capone's chief rival; machine-gunned outside Holy Name Cathedral October 11, 1926; indicted June 1926, charges dismissed after death.
I-70 killer
The I-70 Killer, also called the I-70/I-35 serial killer, is an unidentified gunman who shot six store clerks in Indiana, Missouri, and Kansas over 29 days in spring 1992, linked by .22 caliber ballistics; possible Texas and 2001 follow-ups; still unsolved.
IAEA safeguards
IAEA safeguards are verification activities by which the International Atomic Energy Agency confirms that a state's nuclear material and activities remain peaceful, using nuclear material accountancy, inspections, containment, and surveillance.
Iain Bonomy, Lord Bonomy
Iain Bonomy, Lord Bonomy (born 1946), Scottish judge: Senator of the College of Justice 1997-2004, ICTY judge 2004-2009, UN Mechanism judge since 2020, chaired the 2002 High Court review and the 2014 Post-Corroboration Safeguards Review.
Iain D. Johnston
Iain D. Johnston, born 1965, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Illinois since 2020, appointed by President Donald Trump.