Central African Republic

• Status of Ratifications
• Reporting Status
• Open invitation to Special Procedures
  (No invitation extended)
• Voluntary Pledges and Commitments
  (Not member of the Human Rights Council)

Special Procedures

Country visits by Special Procedures

Most recent Special Procedures' reports

Report of the Special Rapporteur on  extrajudicial summary or arbitrary executions - Preliminary note on mission to Central African Republicl (A/HRC/8/3/Add.5) 

Report of the representative of the Secretary-General on human rights of internally displaced persons - Preliminary note Mission of Republic of Central Africa (A/HRC/4/38/Add.5)

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Main page of the Special Procedures

Most recent concluding observations

Human Rights Committee
Concluding Observations (2006)

Committee on the Rights of the Child
Concluding observations (2000)

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Concluding observations (1999)

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Despite the signing of two peace agreements between the Government and the rebel Union des Forces Démocratiques pour le Rassemblement (UFDR) in February 2007 and in April 2007, there have been no peace talks with the rest of the rebel groups and the situation remains fragile. Continued fighting has resulted in additional internal displacement in the central and northwest regions. The country is beset with chronic human rights problems, especially related to the lack of capacity of the judiciary and extreme poverty. Serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law, especially in conflict zones, are rife; and State institutions are too weak to protect human rights in much of the country. The Central African Republic ranks 172nd out of 177 countries in the Human Development Index.
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