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NEW Report of the OHCHR - TORN APART - The human rights dimension of the involuntary separation of Korean families

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	UN Human Rights Report 2017
	OHCHR Management Plan 2018-2021
	Human Rights in Action (PDF)
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Republic of Korea

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Republic of Korea and UN Charter-based Bodies

Republic of Korea and UN Treaty Bodies

Universal Periodic Review

Core documents for the current and previous cycles

Special Procedures

Country visits by Special Procedures

Most recent Special Procedures' reports

Report of the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises - Mission to the Republic of Korea (A/HRC/35/32/Add.1)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and waste - Mission to the Republic of Korea (A/HRC/33/41/Add.1)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association - Mission to the Republic of Korea (A/HRC/32/36/Add.2)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance - Mission to the Republic of Korea (A/HRC/29/46/Add.1)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders - Mission to Republic of Korea (A/HRC/25/55/Add.1)

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Main page of the Special Procedures

Most recent concluding observations

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Concluding observations (2018) CEDAW/C/KOR/CO/8

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Concluding observations (2017) E/C.12/KOR/CO/4

Committee against Torture
Concluding observations (2017) CAT/C/KOR/CO/3-5

Human Rights Committee
Concluding observations (2015) CCPR/C/KOR/CO/4

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Concluding observations (2014) CRPD/C/KOR/CO/1

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Concluding observations (2012) CERD/C/KOR/CO/15-16

Committee on the Rights of the Child
Concluding observations (2012) CRC/C/KOR/CO/3-4

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict
Concluding observations (2008) CRC/C/OPAC/KOR/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 (2008) CRC/C/OPSC/KOR/CO/1

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