The Treaty Bodies are committees of independent experts that monitor implementation of the core international human rights treaties.
#StandUp4HumanRights
We welcome
#BurkinaFaso
ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure & call on States to keep the momentum & ratify the CRC & its Optional Protocols.
Check out the ratification toolkit:
👉
Mexico 🇲🇽: 10 years have passed. Truth, justice & reparation for Ayotzinapa’s victims are now long overdue.
The UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances
#CED
recalls that search & investigation must go on until the fate & whereabouts of all disappeared are fully clarified.
#CED
: UN Committee on
#EnforcedDisappearances
will review
#Norway
🇳🇴 discussing:
🔹Harmonisation of national legislation
🔹Prevention of enforced disappearances
🔹International legal assistance & cooperation on ED
LIVE: 25 Sept 15h & 26 Sept 10h CEST
#CED
UN Committee on
#EnforcedDisappearances
will examine
#Morocco
🇲🇦 discussing:
🔹Harmonisation of national legislation
🔹Transitional Justice, prosecution & reparation
🔹Recognition of CED competence under arts 31&32
LIVE: 24 Sept 15h & 25 Sept 10h CEST
#CED
has opened its 27th session in Geneva, hearing that enforced disappearances are on the increase as a result of conflicts and growing polarisation within and between countries.
@UNTreatyBodies
The full summary is available here:
Disparitions forcées : « Ce sont avant tout des femmes, des mères, des sœurs, des épouses qui se sont levées et ont eu le courage d’interpeller des hommes armés » -
@OFrouville
, Président du Comité des disparitions forcées (
#CED
)
@UNTreatyBodies
#Nigeria
must urgently take measures to prevent torture and ill-treatment, end impunity & improve conditions of detention, especially in police stations & other similar facilities, says UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
#SPT
after its visit to 🇳🇬.
#CED
UN Committee on
#EnforcedDisappearances
will begin its review of
#Ukraine
🇺🇦discussing:
🔹Investigations and search for disappeared people
🔹Wrongful removal of children
🔹Law on legal status of disappeared persons
LIVE: 23 Sept 15h & 24 Sept 10h CEST
The only real way to serve children's needs in
#Gaza
is a
#ceasefire
.
- UN Child Rights Committee
#CRC
publishes findings on Argentina 🇦🇷, Armenia 🇦🇲, Bahrain 🇧🇭, Israel 🇮🇱, Mexico 🇲🇽, and Turkmenistan 🇹🇲.
@UNChildRights1
The UN Committee on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights
#CESCR
will examine
#Malawi
, discussing
🔹Limited fiscal space for the progressive realisation of ESCRs
🔹Poverty and inequality
🔹Climate change & the right to food
LIVE: 18 Sep 15h & 19 Sep 10h CEST
The UN Committee on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights
#CESCR
will examine
#Cyprus
, discussing
🔹Business and human rights
🔹Non-discrimination and equal treatment
🔹Right to health
LIVE: 17 Sep 15h & 18 Sep 10h CEST
The UN Committee on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights
#CESCR
will examine
#Albania
, discussing
🔹Maximum of available resources
🔹Youth unemployment
🔹Right to adequate housing
LIVE: 16 Sep 15h & 17 Sep 10h CEST
The UN Committee on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights
#CESCR
will examine
#Kyrgyzstan
🇰🇬, discussing
🔹Informal working conditions
🔹Poverty alleviation & social security
🔹Access to housing, food, water & sanitation
LIVE: 12 Sep 15h & 13 Sep 10h CEST
The UN Committee on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights
#CESCR
will examine
#Honduras
🇭🇳, discussing
🔹Land rights and forced evictions
🔹Business and Human Rights
🔹Rights of Indigenous and Afro-Honduran Peoples
LIVE: 11 Sep 15h & 12 Sep 10h CEST
Join us tomorrow, 12 September, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the entry into force of the Optional Protocol on the
#CRC
.
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The UN Committee on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights
#CESCR
will examine
#Poland
, discussing
🔹Independence of the judiciary
🔹Anti-corruption measures
🔹Access to abortion
LIVE: 10 Sep 15h & 11 Sep 10h CEST
The UN Committee on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights
#CESCR
will examine
#Iceland
, discussing
🔹Domestic application of the Covenant
🔹Establishment of the NHRI
🔹Right to work
LIVE: 9 Sep 15h & 10 Sep 10h CEST