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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
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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: 2015
The San José Guidelines outline and standardize measures for confronting attacks against defenders engaging with treaty bodies.
Type of Resource: Handbook / Guide
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This handbook combines in a single volume a clear, concise and accurate guide to the procedural requirements of a wide range of international courts, commissions, committees and other bodies concerned with the protection of human rights.
Type of Resource: Handbook / Guide
Publication Date: 2019
This publication focuses on the consideration of complaints from individuals alleging a violation of their rights. Individual communications procedures (ICPs) were developed to enforce the rights enshrined in the corresponding treaties and provide victims of violations with an effective remedy before an international body.
Type of Resource: Handbook / Guide
Publication Date: 2013
This UN document reviews all avenues through which civil society actors can engage with the Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED). It explains the Committee’s methodology of interaction with civil society actors during the reporting process as well as the follow-up and review procedures. The document also clarifies the role of civil society actors in relation to country visits by the Committee.
Type of Resource: Handbook / Guide
Publication Date: 2010
This is a rigorous scholarly commentary on the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (OP-ICESCR) and its provisions. It is divided into three sections which address procedural issues, substantive interpretation, and remedies and enforcement.
Type of Resource: Handbook / Guide
Publication Date: 2014
This guide provides detailed information on how to effectively use Treaty Body complaint (or communication) and inquiry procedures, including examples of comparative legal arguments, strategies, and jurisprudence from other international human rights enforcement mechanisms. It offers advice on crafting communications and on strategies to ensure that the cases brought forward under the Optional Protocol enhance the efficacy of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and advance accountability, remedies, and enforcement of these rights.
Type of Resource: Handbook / Guide
Publication Date: 2014
This guide explains how the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) periodic reporting process can be used to apply pressure on States to take steps to improve the enjoyment of human rights. The guide advises how NGOs can attend and participate in periodic review sessions held by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), including submitting a shadow report.