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Type of Resource: Report
Publication Date: 2015
This is a summary of the report produced by the CEDAW in response to the submission of information from three NGOs, requesting an inquiry into grave and systematic violations of sexual and reproductive health rights in Manila, Philippines.
Type of Resource: Report
Publication Date: 2015
This report of the CEDAW responds to the complaints of two NGOs under Article 8 of the OP-CEDAW. The report focuses on the results of a confidential inquiry into the high levels of violence suffered by aboriginal women and girls in Canada.
Type of Resource: Fact Sheet
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This document produced by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) seeks to answer frequently asked questions about individual complaints procedures.
Type of Resource: Research
Publication Date: 2017
This research paper attempts to answer what States do when confronted with a violation of a treaty under the individual complaints procedures and what internal mechanisms they have in place to implement these decisions. It provides brief information on the follow-up procedures, the impact of treaty body complaints procedures, and challenges to implementation, including the legal status of decisions, and the translation of States' international legal obligations into national law.
Type of Resource: Article
Publication Date: 2017
This article explains the innovative system recently adopted by the Committee against Torture (CAT) to follow up, assess, and grade States' implementation of CAT recommendations. The new follow-up procedure offers a range of opportunities for human rights defenders and practitioners both to increase the visibility of the implementation of CAT recommendations and to encourage States parties to do more to comply with those recommendations.
Type of Resource: Guide
Publication Date: 2011
This document lays out the working methods of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). See section K on page 5 for information on early awareness and urgent action procedures.
Type of Resource: Guide
Publication Date: 2014
In this guidance, the Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) explains the requirements for submitting requests for urgent action and provides a template for such requests.
Type of Resource: Guide
Publication Date:
This short document explains how relatives of a disappeared person, their legal representatives, their counsel or any person authorized by them, as well as any person having a legitimate interest in searching and locating the disappeared person, can present a petition for Urgent Action to the Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED).
Type of Resource: Guide
Publication Date: 2007
These guidelines outline the background of the early warning and urgent action procedures of the CERD and explain how the Committee handles and responds to the use of such procedures.
Type of Resource: Guide
Publication Date: 2012
The Addis Ababa Guidelines lay out the expectations and requirements of independce and impartiality of members of the Human Rights Treaty Bodies.
