International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights — Article 11
Recognizes the right to an adequate standard of living, including food, clothing, and housing. States must take appropriate steps to ensure realization of this right, including through international cooperation.
DOGE fired over 600 National Weather Service employees including hurricane hunters, meteorologists, and storm modelers, leaving 30 forecast offices without lead meteorologists. The NWS Goodland, …
On February 27, 2025, the Commerce Department and NOAA fired more than 600 probationary employees at the National Weather Service, including …
By May 2025, 30 of the NWS's 122 forecast offices lacked a lead meteorologist. Goodland, Kansas — normally staffed with 13 meteorologists — …
DOGE operationally shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — a Congressionally-created agency protecting 330 million Americans from financial fraud — by ordering staff to cease all work, …
On February 8, 2025, CFPB Acting Director Russell Vought ordered all staff and contractors to 'not perform any work tasks,' effectively …
DOGE deleted the CFPB's X (Twitter) account and gained administrative access to the agency's internal computer systems, content management …
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act slashes $863 billion from Medicaid and $295 billion from SNAP to fund $1 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthiest, projected to strip healthcare from 10.9 million people …
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act includes $863 billion in Medicaid cuts and $295 billion in SNAP cuts over fiscal years 2025-2034, exceeding …
The CBO projects 10.9 million Americans will become uninsured due to Medicaid losses and ACA marketplace coverage reductions.
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Updated March 26, 2026Foreign Policy & War
Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law ConcernOngoingReported record
The combined effect of freezing Afghanistan's sovereign assets and terminating all US humanitarian aid has created a catastrophic humanitarian crisis in which millions face starvation. UN officials …
The United States and European nations froze nearly $9.5 billion in Afghan central bank assets after the Taliban takeover in August 2021, …
In 2025, the Trump administration terminated all remaining US humanitarian aid to Afghanistan — $561.8 million — ordering an immediate …
The reimposition of FTO status on the Houthis threatens to deepen what was already the world's worst humanitarian crisis by chilling aid delivery, disrupting commercial imports, and creating legal …
On March 4, 2025, the State Department redesignated Ansarallah (Houthis) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, carrying criminal penalties …
Biden had revoked the FTO designation in February 2021 specifically because of its humanitarian impact, stating it was 'due entirely to the …
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Updated March 25, 2026Foreign Policy & War
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The Iran war triggered closure of the world's most critical energy chokepoint, causing the largest supply disruption since the 1970s. Oil above $120/barrel, 70% food import disruption across Gulf …
The Strait of Hormuz — through which approximately 20 million barrels of oil pass daily, representing 20% of global seaborne oil trade — was …
Tanker traffic dropped by approximately 70%, with over 150 ships anchoring outside the strait to avoid risks.
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Updated March 25, 2026Foreign Policy & War
Serious Rights ViolationOngoingOfficial executive action
The systematically intensified US sanctions regime against Cuba has caused 20-hour blackouts, hospital closures, medication shortages for 5 million chronically ill people, and collapse of essential …
US sanctions have cut Cuba's fuel imports by approximately 90 percent as of February 2026, causing electrical grid collapse with blackouts …
Cuba's Health Minister reports 5 million people with chronic illnesses face medication or treatment disruption, including 16,000 cancer …
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Updated March 25, 2026Federal Dismantlement
Serious Rights ViolationOngoingOfficial executive action
A systematic effort to dismantle federal disaster preparedness and response capacity through budget cuts, mass layoffs, program terminations, and structural reorganization. FEMA's workforce has …
FEMA's workforce shrank from approximately 29,000 to 23,000 in 2025 — a loss of one-third of its staff since Trump's second term began.
The proposed FY2026 budget cuts FEMA by $646 million. Plans call for a 50% total workforce reduction, a 41% disaster response staff cut, and …
Federal funding cutoffs threatened against sanctuary cities and their entire states, lawsuits against 29 states, and pending legislation to condition unrelated federal funding on immigration …
On January 13, 2026, Trump announced plans to suspend all federal funding to states hosting sanctuary cities starting February 1, expanding …
The DOJ sued 29 states and Washington, DC for refusing to hand over voter registration lists and cooperate with federal immigration …