Human rights education and training.
Special Rapporteur on the right to education
Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences.
Women’s Rights and Gender main page Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice.
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC).
OHCHR Study on children working and/or living on the street.
Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.
United Nations Study on Violence against Children
Human Rights Committee (HRC)
Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context
Business and Human Rights.
Human Rights and climate Change.
Independent Expert in the field of cultural rights.
Rule of Law – Democracy and Human Rights.
Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
Development – Good governance.
Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights.
Open-ended working group on the right to development.
Right to development.
Human Rights of persons with disabilities.
A special focus on discrimination.
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights – General information and resources.
Open-ended Working Group on an Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Special Rapporteur on the human rights implications of environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes.
Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.
Special Rapporteur on the right to food.
Freedom of expression and advocacy of religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence.
Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression.
Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association.
Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief.
Women’s Rights and Gender main page
Consultation on Elimination of discrimination against persons affected by leprosy and their family members.
Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.
HIV/AIDS and Human Rights.
Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders.
Human rights education and training.
United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training.
World Programme for Human Rights Education (2005-ongoing).
Human Rights Indicators
Independent Expert to update the Set of Principles for the protection and the promotion of human rights through action to combat impunity.
Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers.
Representative of the Secretary-General on internally displaced persons.
Independent expert on human rights and international solidarity.
Millenium Development Goals and Human Rights.
Fellowship programme.
Independent Expert on minority issues.
Main page Minorities.
Older persons
National Plans of Action for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights.
Consultation on the draft of the guiding principles: "Extreme poverty and human rights: the rights of the poor".
Human rights dimension of poverty.
Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.
Ad-Hoc Committee on the elaboration of complementary standards.
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Durban Review Conference (2009).
Group of Independent Eminent Experts.
Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism.
Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent.
Working Group on the effective implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action.
World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Durban (2001).
Rule of Law
Working Group on Situations.
Special Rapporteur on Contemporary forms of slavery.
Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery.
Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery.
Committee against Torture (CAT).
Special Rapporteur on torture.
Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture.
United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture.
Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children.
Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises.
Consultations on human rights and access to Water
Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation.
Stakeholders views for the study on human rights obligations related to equitable access to safe drinking Water and sanitation.
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