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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 the United States of America (A/HRC/38/33/Add.1)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous people - Mission to the United States of America (A/HRC/36/46/Add.1)

Report of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention - Mission to the United States of America (A/HRC/36/37/Add.2)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children - Mission to the United States of America (A/HRC/35/37/Add.2)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association - Mission to the United States of America (A/HRC/35/28/Add.2)

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Most recent concluding observations

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict
Concluding observations (2017) CRC/C/OPAC/USA/CO/3-4

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children child prostitution and child pornography
Concluding observations (2017) CRC/C/OPSC/USA/CO/3-4

Committee against Torture
Concluding observations (2014) CAT/C/USA/CO/3-5

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Concluding observations (2014) CERD/C/USA/CO/7-9

Human Rights Committee
Concluding observations (2014) CCPR/C/USA/CO/4

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