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Most recent Special Procedures' reports

Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance  - Mission to the United States of America (A/HRC/11/36/Add.3)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions - Mission to United States of America (A/HRC/11/2/Add.5)

Report of the Special Rapporteur of human rights of migrants - Mission to the United States of America (A/HRC/7/12)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism - Mission to the United States of America (A/HRC/6/17/Add.3)

Report of the independent expert on human rights and extreme poverty, Arjun Sengupta - Mission to the United States of America (E/CN.4/2006/43/Add.1)

Situation of detainees at Guantánamo Bay - Report of the Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Leila Zerrougui; the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Leandro Despouy; the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Manfred Nowak; the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Asma Jahangir; and the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attain (E/CN.4/2006/120)

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Committee on the Rights of the Child
Concluding observations (2008) OPSC
Concluding observations (2008) OPAC

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Concluding observations (2008)

Human Rights Committee
Concluding observations (2006)

Committee Against Torture
Concluding observations (2006)

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