Colombia

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Special Procedures

Country visits by Special Procedures

Most recent Special Procedures' reports

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)

Report of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances - Mission to Colombia (E/CN.4/2006/56/Add.1)

Report of Ambeyi Ligabo, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression - Mission to Colombia (E/CN.4/2005/64/Add.3)

Report of Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people - Mission to Colombia (E/CN.4/2005/88/Add.2)

Report of Special Rapporteur on the right to education (1-10/10/2003). (E/CN.4/2004/45/Add.2)

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

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

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

Committee on the Rights of the Child
Concluding Observations (2006)

Committee Against Torture
Concluding Observations (2004)

Human Rights Committee
Concluding observations (2004)

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Concluding observations (2001)

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

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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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