Thursday, November 6, 2025 | 13:30–15:00 CET / 7:30 AM EST
Room VIII, Palais des Nations
Geneva, Switzerland

The U.S. has declared its withdrawal from the Universal Periodic Review of its human rights record, required every 4.5-5 years of all 193 United Nations member states.

Impacted people and human rights defenders offer testimony and analysis of the escalating human rights crisis in the U.S. including discriminatory administration of justice, attacks on bodily autonomy and the right to sexual and reproductive health, the criminalization of homelessness and poverty, repression of protest and broad crackdown on civil society. Panelists will provide information on the latest assaults on those most marginalized, including migrants, incarcerated people, Black and brown communities and the LGBTQIA+ community, and invite international actors into immediate action to combat the broad erosion of the human rights framework and to rearticulate a universal commitment to accountability, justice, and dignity for all.

PANELISTS:

• Jamil Dakwar, ACLU
• Professor Sunita Patel, UCLA
• Chandra Bhatnagar, ACLU SoCal
• Saleem Holbrook, Abolitionist Law Center and on behalf of Center for Constitutional Rights
• Siya Hegde, National Homelessness Law Center
• Lisa Majumdar, Center for Reproductive Rights

Moderator: Phil Lynch, International Service for Human Rights