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Most recent Special Procedures' reports

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities - Mission to France (A/HRC/40/54/Add.1)

Report of the Independent Expert on the issue of human rights obligations relating to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment - Mission to France (A/HRC/28/61/Add.1)

Report of the Independent Expert on minorities issues - Mission to France (A/HRC/7/23/Add.2)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Asma Jahangir (18-29 September 2005) (E/CN.4/2006/5/Add.4)

Sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography - Report submitted by the Special Rapporteur: Mission to France (E/CN.4/2004/9/Add.1)

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Most recent concluding observations

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Concluding observations (2016) CEDAW/C/FRA/CO/7-8

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Concluding observations (2016) E/C.12/FRA/CO/4

Committee against Torture
Concluding observations (2016) CAT/C/FRA/CO/7

Committee on the Rights of the Child
Concluding observations (2016) CRC/C/FRA/CO/5

Human Rights Committee
Concluding observations (2015) CCPR/C/FRA/CO/5

Committee on Enforced Disappearances
Concluding observations (2013) CED/C/FRA/CO/1

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Concluding observations (2010) CERD/C/FRA/CO/17-19

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict
Concluding observations (2007) CRC/C/OPAC/FRA/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 (2007) CRC/C/OPSC/FRA/CO/1


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Feature stories
COVID-19: Standing up for the human rights of migrants and refugees in France
03-06-2020

Bachelet calls for "a multilateralism which expresses people’s needs, and which protects and advances their human rights"
22-11-2019

High Commissioner Bachelet defends the rights of human rights defenders at a Summit meeting in Paris
29-10-2018
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