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Type of Resource: Communication, Sample document
Publication Date: 2011
This document contains Kazakhstan's response to the allegations of torture submitted to the Committee against Torture by the Open Society Justice Initiative and Alexander Gerasimov.
Type of Resource: Communication, Sample document
Publication Date: 2010
In this communication to the Committee Against Torture, the Open Society Justice Initiative presents the case of Alexander Gerasimov, who had been detained and tortured by Kazakh authorities.
Type of Resource: Sample document
Publication Date: 2016
In this General comment, the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) underlines the multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination against women and girls with disabilities in areas such as equal access to education, economic opportunities, social interaction and justice, and equal recognition before the law.
Type of Resource: Communication, Sample document
Publication Date: 2015
In this submission, the Center for Reproductive Rights provides comments on the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’ draft General Comment on women with disabilities. The Center argues there are specific areas where States’ obligations could be further strengthened in respect to the reproductive health and rights of women and girls with disabilities.
Type of Resource: Communication, Sample document
Publication Date: 2020
In this submission to the Human Rights Committee, Greenpeace International critiques the Committee's draft General Comment No. 37 on freedom of peaceful assembly, making suggestions on the scope of the right of peaceful assembly, assemblies on privately-owned property, assemblies and business, criminal and administrative proceedings, and notification requirements.
Type of Resource: Communication, Sample document
Publication Date: 2020
In response to a report of the Human Rights Committee, this document focuses on: general considerations and language in the report; the notion of "violent protests"; authorization and prior notice; illegitimate restrictions on the right of peaceful assembly; obligations of the States Party in relation to the right to freedom of peaceful protest; accountability. The annex contains suggestions on alternative wording to the current text with a view toward incorporating these observations into the main body of this report.
Type of Resource: Sample document
Publication Date: 2014
This joint general recommendation/comment clarifies the obligations of States parties to the Conventions by providing authoritative guidance on legislative, policy and other appropriate measures to ensure full compliance with their obligations to eliminate harmful practices grounded in discrimination based on sex, gender and age, among other things.
Type of Resource: Sample document
Publication Date: 2018
In this General Recommendation, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) tackled gender-related dimensions of disaster risk reduction in the context of climate change. The recommendation emphasizes states obligations to ensure substantive equality between women and men in all areas of life, as well as specific guarantees that may be particularly affected by climate change and disasters.
Type of Resource: Sample document
Publication Date: 2002
This General Comment discusses the reporting obligations of States parties under Article 40 of the ICCPR.
Type of Resource: Sample document
Publication Date: 2019
This General Comment examines Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, discussing the prohibition against arbitrary deprivation of life, the duty to protect life, the imposition of the death penalty, and the relationship of the right to life with other rights.