Colombia

• Status of Ratifications
• Reporting Status
• Open invitation to Special Procedures
• 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 independent expert on minority issues - Mission to Colombia (A/HRC/16/45/Add.1)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the independence of the judges and lawyers - Mission to Colombia (A/HRC/14/26/Add.2)

Report of the Special Rapporteur  on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions - Mission to Colombia (A/HRC/14/24/Add.2)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders - Mission to Colombia (A/HRC/13/22/Add.3)

Report of the Working Group on arbitrary detention - Mission to Colombia (A/HRC/10/21/Add.3)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health - Mission Preliminary note on the mission to Ecuador and to Colombia (A/HRC/7/11/Add.3)

Report of the representative of the Secretary-General on human rights of internally displaced persons Mr. Walter Kälin - Mission to Colombia (A/HRC/4/38/Add.3)

Most recent reports by the UN Secretary-General, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Secretariat

Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Colombia (A/HRC/16/22)

Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Colombia (A/HRC/13/72)

Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the activities of her office in Colombia (A/HRC/10/32)

Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Colombia (A/HRC/7/39)

Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Colombia (A/HRC/4/48)

Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Colombia (E/CN.4/2006/9)

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Main page of the Special Procedures

Most recent concluding observations

Human Rights Committee
Concluding observations (2010)

Committee on the Rights of the Child
OPSC : Concluding Observations (2010)
OPAC : Concluding Observations (2010)

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Concluding observations (2010)

Committee Against Torture
Concluding Observations (2009)

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Concluding Observations (2009)

Committee on Migrant Workers
Concluding Observations (2009)

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Concluding Observations (2007) 

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OHCHR has been present in Colombia since 1997. Through its offices in Bogotá, Medellín, Bucaramanga and Cali, it implements a comprehensive programme that includes observing and reporting on human rights and international humanitarian law, giving advice, providing technical cooperation, promoting and disseminating human rights and international humanitarian law, and strengthening national authorities and civil society. In September 2007, OHCHR’s mandate in Colombia was renewed for three years.
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