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Special Procedures

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Most recent Special Procedures' reports

Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights - Mission to China (A/HRC/35/26/Add.2)

Report of the Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt -Mission to China (A/HRC/31/60/Add.1)

Report of the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice - Mission to China (A/HRC/26/39/Add.2)

Report of the SR on the right to food - Mission to China (A/HRC/19/59/Add.1)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food - Preliminary note on the mission to China (A/HRC/16/49/Add.3)

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Most recent concluding observations

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Concluding observations (2018) CERD/C/CHN/CO/14-17
Concluding observations - China (Hong Kong) (2009) CERD/C/CHN/CO/10-13
Concluding observations - China (Macau) (2009) CERD/C/CHN/CO/10-13

Committee against Torture
Concluding observations - China (Hong Kong) (2016) CAT/C/CHN-HKG/CO/5
Concluding observations - China (Macau) (2015) CAT/C/CHN-MAC/CO/5
Concluding observations (2015) CAT/C/CHN/CO/5

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Concluding observations (2014) CEDAW/C/CHN/CO/7-8
Concluding observations - China (Hong Kong) (2014) CEDAW/C/CHN/CO/7-8
Concluding observations - China (Macau) (2014) CEDAW/C/CHN/CO/7-8

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Concluding observations (2014) E/C.12/CHN/CO/2
Concluding observations - China (Hong Kong) (2014) E/C.12/CHN/CO/2
Concluding observations - China (Macau) (2014) E/C.12/CHN/CO/2

Committee on the Rights of the Child
Concluding observations (2013) CRC/C/CHN/CO/3-4
Concluding observations - China (Hong Kong) (2013) CRC/C/CHN/CO/3-4
Concluding observations - China (Macau) (2013) CRC/C/CHN/CO/3-4

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict
Concluding observations (2013) CRC/C/OPAC/CHN/CO/1

Human Rights Committee
Concluding observations - China (Hong Kong) (2013) CCPR/C/CHN-HKG/CO/3
Concluding observations - China (Macau) (2013) CCPR/C/CHN-MAC/CO/1

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Concluding observations (2012) CRPD/C/CHN/CO/1

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children child prostitution and child pornography
Concluding observations (2005) CRC/C/OPSA/CHN/CO/1
Concluding observations - China (Macau) (2005) CRC/C/OPSA/CHN/CO/1

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Liu Xiaobo: The definition of civic courage and human dignity - Zeid
13-07-2017

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