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Governments must do more to prevent slavery and exploitation during COVID-19 pandemic 11/30/2020
  • Press Releases
  • Occupied Palestinian Territory
  • Somalia
  • Myanmar
  • Mali
  • Sp. Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery
  • Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons especially women and children
  • Sp. Rapporteur on Racial Discrimination
  • Sp. Rapporteur on occupied Palestine
  • Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order
  • Sp. Rapporteur on summary executions
  • Sp. Rapporteur on independence of judges and lawyers
  • Special Rapporteur on the right to development
  • Independent expert on Somalia
  • Sp. Rapporteur on Myanmar
  • Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights
  • Sp. Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
  • Special Rapporteur on the elimination of discrimination against persons affected by leprosy and their family members
  • Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
  • Sp. Rapporteur on the right to education
  • Sp. Rapporteur on the sale of children
  • Independent Expert on Mali
  • Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment
  • Working Group on the use of mercenaries
  • Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
  • Sp. Rapporteur on the right to everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
  • Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism
  • Sp. Rapporteur on torture
  • Special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
  • Special Rapporteur on internally displaced persons
  • Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity
  • Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises
  • Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism
  • Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
  • WG on Disappearances
  • Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights
  • Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls
  • Committee against Torture
  • Committee on Enforced Disappearance
  • Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
  • WG on Arbitrary Detention
  • Committee on the Rights of the Child
  • Committee on Migrant Workers
  • Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
  • Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
  • Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of the Committee against Torture
  • Special Rapporteur on Minorities Issues
  • Slavery
  • Traffic in persons
  • Racism and racial discrimination
  • International Order
  • Summary or arbitrary executions
  • Independence of judiciary
  • Right to development
  • Toxics and human rights
  • Migrant workers
  • Leprosy
  • Extreme poverty
  • Education
  • Children rights
  • Environment
  • Mercenaries
  • Right to drinking water
  • Health
  • Terrorism
  • Torture and inhuman treatment
  • Internally displaced persons
  • Sexual orientation and gender identity
  • Transnational corporations
  • Albinism
  • Disability
  • Enforced or involuntary disappearances
  • Cultural rights
  • Women rights
  • Women
  • Arbitrary detention
  • Migration and Human Rights
  • Sale of children
  • Minorities
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UN torture prevention body: COVID-19 shows need to strengthen national preventive mechanisms 7/2/2020
  • Press Releases
  • Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of the Committee against Torture
  • Torture and inhuman treatment
 E F S R C A
COVID-19 exacerbates the risk of ill-treatment and torture worldwide – UN experts 6/26/2020
  • Statements/Messages
  • Sp. Rapporteur on torture
  • Committee against Torture
  • Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of the Committee against Torture
  • Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
  • Fund for Victims of Torture
  • Torture and inhuman treatment
 E F S R C A
UN torture prevention body suspends Argentina visit over Covid-19 concerns
Postpones scheduled visits to Bulgaria, Australia and Nauru 		3/11/2020
  • Press Releases
  • Argentina
  • Bulgaria
  • Australia
  • Nauru
  • Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of the Committee against Torture
  • Torture and inhuman treatment
  • Coronavirus disease 2019
 E F S R C A
UN torture prevention body confirms upcoming visits and issues advice on compulsory quarantine for Coronavirus 3/6/2020
  • Press Releases
  • Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of the Committee against Torture
 E F S R C A
UN torture prevention body makes second visit to Argentina 3/5/2020
  • Press Releases
  • Argentina
  • Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of the Committee against Torture
  • Torture and inhuman treatment
 E F S R C A
UN torture prevention body announces forthcoming country visits and issues views on Brazil 12/16/2019
  • Press Releases
  • Brazil
  • Argentina
  • Australia
  • Bulgaria
  • Croatia
  • Lebanon
  • Madagascar
  • Nauru
  • Paraguay
  • Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of the Committee against Torture
  • Torture and inhuman treatment
 E F S R C A
UN torture prevention committee ends first visit to Cabo Verde 10/14/2019
  • Press Releases
  • Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of the Committee against Torture
 E F S R C A
UN torture prevention body visits Cabo Verde for the first time 9/27/2019
  • Press Releases
  • Cabo Verde
  • Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of the Committee against Torture
  • Torture and inhuman treatment
 E F S R C A
UN torture prevention body concludes visit to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 9/19/2019
  • Press Releases
  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of the Committee against Torture
  • Torture and inhuman treatment
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