PRESS RELEASE Geneva, 3 July 2026 - A side event held on the margins of the 62nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council called for urgent scrutiny of the United States’ use of emergency powers, sanctions, extraterritorial enforcement and non-cooperation with United Nations human rights mechanisms. The event, entitled “Emergency Powers, Human Rights and the Rule of Law in the United States: Article 4 of the ICCPR, Transnational Repression and Extraterritorial Accou