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Publications

OHCHR report 2011 OHCHR Report 2011 (PDF)
OHCHR Management Plan 2012-2013 OHCHR Management Plan 2012-2013 (PDF)
Brochure: Human Rights in action Human Rights in Action (PDF)
Working with the United Nations Human Rights Programme: A Handbook for Civil Society A Handbook for Civil Society (PDF)

Yemen


Yemen 

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Yemen and UN Charter-based Bodies

Yemen and UN Treaty Bodies

Most recent concluding observations

Human Rights Committee
Concluding Observations (2012)

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Concluding Observations (2011)

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Concluding Observations (2011)  

Committee Against Torture
Concluding Observations (2010)

Committee on the Rights of the Child
Concluding Observations (2009) - OPSC
Concluding Observations (2005)

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Concluding observations (2008)

>>Full list of documents in the Treaty Body Database


OHCHR in Yemen

The resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, on 24 November 2011, after months of protests and the initiative of the Gulf Cooperation Council, led to the formation of a two-year transitional Government. President Hadi’s election, on 21 February 2012, was meant to be followed by a process of army and security restructuring, restoration of security in the capital and the country at large, the launch of a national dialogue process to pave the way for a new constitution, and general elections by the end of the two-year transitional period.
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Contact Information

Headquarters

Field Operations and Technical Cooperation Division
Geneva, Switzerland

Middle East and North Africa Section
Tel. +41 22 928 9153
Geneva, Switzerland


Human Rights Assessment Mission

Yemen Assessment Mission Report (PDF)

Feature stories

 

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OHCHR in the field

Map of OHCHR field presences

Regional Offices

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Human Rights Components of Peace Missions

Human Rights Advisors

Action 2

Technical Cooperation Programme

National Human Rights Institutions