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Rwanda

Status of Ratifications
Reporting Status
Standing invitation to Special Procedures
General Assembly Resolutions, Decisions and Chairperson's Statements
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Rwanda and UN Charter-based Bodies

Rwanda 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 Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association - Mission to Rwanda (A/HRC/26/29/Add.2)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing - Mission to Rwanda (A/HRC/22/46/Add.2)

Report of the Independent Expert on minority issues - Mission to Rwanda (A/HRC/19/56/Add.1)

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Main page of the Special Procedures

Most recent concluding observations

Committee on the Rights of the Child
Concluding observations (2020) CRC/C/RWA/CO/5-6

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Concluding observations (2019) CRPD/C/RWA/CO/1

Committee against Torture
Concluding observations (2017) CAT/C/RWA/CO/2

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Concluding observations (2017) CEDAW/C/RWA/CO/7-9

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Concluding observations (2016) CERD/C/RWA/CO/18-20

Human Rights Committee
Concluding observations (2016) CCPR/C/RWA/CO/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/RWA/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 (2013) CRC/C/OPSC/RWA/CO/1

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Concluding observations (2013) E/C.12/RWA/CO/2-4

Committee on Migrant Workers
Concluding observations (2012) CMW/C/RWA/CO/1

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OHCHR in Rwanda

The Human Rights Adviser’s Office was established in 2008 within the UN Country Team in Rwanda. The Senior Human Rights Adviser works with the UN Country Team (UNCT) to integrate human rights into their programmes and activities; provides technical advice to national institutions; supports the UNCT and national partners in their engagement with regional and international human rights mechanisms, and conducts human rights capacity-building for a range of governmental and non-governmental actors. More about OHCHR in Rwanda.

Contact Information

Headquarters

Field Operations and Technical Cooperation Division (FOTCD)
Contact in Geneva, Switzerland.

Africa Branch
Tel. + 41 22 928 9360

Field

c/o UNDP
Avenue de l’Armée 12
P.O. Box 445
Kigali, Rwanda