The phrase "a human rights problem" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing issues or challenges related to the violation or protection of human rights.
Example: "The ongoing conflict in the region has created a significant human rights problem that needs urgent attention."
Alternatives: "a human rights issue" or "a human rights concern".
Questioned about the report, General McCaffrey said Colombia had a human rights problem "of gigantic proportions".
Gender inequality is a societal and a human rights problem, with a multiplier effect on economies, communities and nations that is truly overwhelming.
Stephen Humphreys: The Bali Summit: If climate change is a human rights problem, why is no one stepping forward to suggest a solution?
It says: Enforced disappearances – the practice by states or governments to detain (or worse) citizens and keep their families in the dark about their fate – have been a human rights problem in Syria for decades.
However, rather than seeing his relationship with Kim as a human rights problem in itself, the athlete told Sports Illustrated magazine that he should be considered for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Enforced disappearances – the practice by states or governments to detain (or worse) citizens and keep their families in the dark about their fate – have been a human rights problem in Syria for decades.
He urged the health sector to help address the cycle of violence against children and women, and stated, "I cannot emphasize enough that violence against children and women, as well as being a significant human rights problem is also a serious public health crisis for Papua New Guinea and needs to be dealt with immediately".
When I visited the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights OHCHRR) in Geneva in July 2003, Bertrand Ramcharan, the Acting High Commissioner for Human Rights at the time, expressed an understanding that leprosy is a serious human rights problem, but noted that leprosy had never been put on the table.
"Sexual violence by educators against learners is a devastating human rights problem in South Africa and throughout the world.
A senior Clinton administration official told an American Jewish leader that the case of the 11 men should be treated as part of a broader human rights problem.
Right now, carrier bloatware and device control is just an irritation, but look just a little ways into the future, and it's worryingly easy to envision it actually becoming a serious human rights problem … especially if Western companies keep on selling their oppression technology to all comers.
