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Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination closes virtual one hundred and first session 8/7/2020
  • Press Releases
  • Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
 E F S R C A
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination opens one hundred and first session online 8/6/2020
  • Press Releases
  • Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
 E F S R C A
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination opens one hundred and first session online 8/5/2020
  • Press Releases
  • Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
  • Racism and racial discrimination
 E F S R C A
Work of human rights treaty bodies at risk, warn UN Committee Chairs 8/4/2020
  • Press Releases
  • Committee against Torture
  • Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights
  • Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
  • Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
  • Committee on Enforced Disappearance
  • Committee on the Rights of the Child
  • Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
  • Committee on Migrant Workers
  • Human Rights Committee
  • Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of the Committee against Torture
  • Coronavirus disease 2019
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UN Committee calls on US to comply with international obligations to tackle racial discrimination 6/15/2020
  • Press Releases
  • United States of America
  • Sp. Rapporteur on Racial Discrimination
  • Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
  • Minorities
  • Racism and racial discrimination
  • Minorities
 E F S R C A
UN experts condemn modern-day racial terror lynchings in US and call for systemic reform and justice 6/5/2020
  • Press Releases
  • United States of America
  • Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
  • Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent
  • Sp. Rapporteur on summary executions
  • Sp. Rapporteur on Racial Discrimination
  • Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity
  • Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
  • WG on Arbitrary Detention
  • Sp. Rapporteur on freedom of expression
  • Independent expert older persons
  • Sp. Rapporteur on torture
  • Sp. Rapporteur on independence of judges and lawyers
  • Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment
  • Special Rapporteur on Minorities Issues
  • Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
  • Working Group on the use of mercenaries
  • African Descent
  • Summary or arbitrary executions
  • Racism and racial discrimination
  • Sexual orientation and gender identity
  • Disability
  • Arbitrary detention
  • Freedom of opinion and expression
  • Mercenaries
  • Older persons
  • Torture and inhuman treatment
  • Independence of judiciary
  • Environment
  • Minorities
  • Freedom of association
  • Extreme poverty
 E F S R C A
Statement on the Protests against Systemic Racism in the United States 6/5/2020
  • Statements/Messages
  • United States of America
  • Sp. Rapporteur on Racial Discrimination
  • Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism
  • WG on Arbitrary Detention
  • Business and Human Rights
  • Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia
  • Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism
  • Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order
  • Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People s Republic of Korea
  • Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
  • Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls
  • Sp. Rapporteur on the right to education
  • Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment
  • Sp. Rapporteur on summary executions
  • Sp. Rapporteur on the right to food
  • Independent expert on the effects of foreign debt
  • Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • Sp. Rapporteur on freedom of expression
  • Sp. Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief
  • Sp. Rapporteur on the right to everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
  • Sp. Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing
  • Special Rapporteur on the elimination of discrimination against persons affected by leprosy and their family members
  • Independent Expert on Mali
  • Working Group on the use of mercenaries
  • Sp. Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
  • Special Rapporteur on Minorities Issues
  • Sp. Rapporteur on Myanmar
  • Independent expert older persons
  • Sp. Rapporteur on occupied Palestine
  • Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
  • Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent
  • Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy
  • Special Rapporteur on the right to development
  • Sp. Rapporteur on the sale of children
  • Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity
  • Sp. Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery
  • Independent expert on human rights and international solidarity
  • Sp. Rapporteur on Sudan
  • Sp. Rapporteur on torture
  • Sp. Rapporteur on toxic wastes
  • Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons especially women and children
  • Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence
  • Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures
  • Sp. Rapporteur on violence against women
  • Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
  • Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
  • Racism and racial discrimination
  • African Descent
  • Women
 E F S R C A
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination closes its one hundredth session 12/13/2019
  • Press Releases
  • Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
  • Racism and racial discrimination
 E F S R C A
UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination publishes findings on Cambodia, Colombia, Ireland, Israel and Uzbekistan 12/13/2019
  • Press Releases
  • Colombia
  • Cambodia
  • Ireland
  • Israel
  • Uzbekistan
  • Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
  • Racism and racial discrimination
 E F S R C A
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination celebrates its one hundredth session 12/13/2019
  • Press Releases
  • Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
  • Racism and racial discrimination
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