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Netherlands

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Netherlands and UN Charter-based Bodies

Netherlands and UN Treaty Bodies

Universal Periodic Review

Core documents for the current and previous cycles and letter by the High Commissioner to the Foreign Minister

Special Procedures

Country visits by Special Procedures

Most recent Special Procedures' reports

Report of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief on his visit to the Netherlands (A/HRC/43/48/Add.1)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance on her visit to the Netherlands (A/HRC/44/57/Add.2)

Report of the Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity - Mission to Netherlands (A/HRC/41/44/Add.2)

Report of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent - Mission to Netherlands (A/HRC/30/56/Add.1)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the adverse effects of the movement and dumping of toxic and dangerous products and wastes on the enjoyment of human rights - Mission to Côte d’Ivoire and the Netherlands (A/HRC/12/26/Add.2)

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Main page of the Special Procedures

Most recent concluding observations

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Concluding observations (2021) CERD/C/NLD/CO/22-24
Concluding observations - Netherlands (Aruba) (2004) CERD/C/64/CO/7
Concluding observations - Netherlands (Antilles) (2001) CERD/C/304/Add.104

Human Rights Committee
Concluding observations (2019) CCPR/C/NLD/CO/5
Concluding observations - Netherlands (Antilles) (2009) CCPR/C/NLD/CO/4
Concluding observations - Netherlands (Aruba) (2009) CCPR/C/NLD/CO/4

Committee against Torture
Concluding observations (2018) CAT/C/NLD/CO/7
Concluding observations - Netherlands (Antilles) (2013) CAT/C/NLD/CO/5-6
Concluding observations - Netherlands (Aruba) (2013) CAT/C/NLD/CO/5-6

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Concluding observations (2017) E/C.12/NLD/CO/6
Concluding observations - Netherlands (Antilles) (2010) E/C.12/NLD/CO/4-5
Concluding observations - Netherlands (Aruba) (2010) E/C.12/NLD/CO/4-5

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Concluding observations (2016) CEDAW/C/NLD/CO/6
Concluding observations - Netherlands (Antilles) (2010) CEDAW/C/NLD/CO/5
Concluding observations - Netherlands (Aruba) (2010) CEDAW/C/NLD/CO/5

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict
Concluding observations (2015) CRC/C/OPAC/NLD/CO/1

Committee on the Rights of the Child
Concluding observations (2015) CRC/C/NLD/CO/4
Concluding observations - Netherlands (Antilles) (2009) CRC/C/NLD/CO/3
Concluding observations - Netherlands (Aruba) (2009) CRC/C/NLD/CO/3

Committee on Enforced Disappearances
Concluding observations (2014) CED/C/NLD/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 (2009) CRC/C/OPSC/NLD/CO/1

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