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Violence against women

Reservations to the Convention

Amending article 20 of the Convention

Political and public life

Non-discrimination

Article 23: Protection of the Family, the Right to Marriage and Equality of the Spouses

Article 18: The right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion

Article 27: The rights of minorities

Article 12: Freedom of movement

Gender-related dimensions of racial discrimination

The right to adequate housing

Forced evictions

The domestic application of the Covenant

Plans of action for primary education (Art. 14)

Sexual education

Solitary confinement

Discrimination against Roma

Combatting racist hate speech

Equal recognition before the law

Violence against women

Women migrant workers

Older women and protection of their human rights

The right to work (Art. 6)

Internal displacement in 2010: What are the major challenges?

Sexual and reproductive health and rights of girls and young women with disabilities

Vulnerabilities of children to sale, trafficking and other forms of exploitation in situations of conflict and humanitarian crisis

Extreme poverty and human rights on universal basic income

Gender-based violence against women, updating general recommendation No. 19

Overview of working methods and vision

Public budgeting for the realization of children’s rights (art. 4)

Mandate, working methods, work plan for the mandate

Eliminating discrimination against women in political and public life with a focus on political transition

Strengthening commitment to the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and its implementation

Women and their right to adequate housing

Responsibilities of local and other subnational governments in relation to the right to adequate housing

Homelessness as a global human rights crisis that demands an urgent global response

Global trends in risks and threats facing human rights defenders

Impact of the criminalization of migration on the protection and enjoyment of human rights

Different levels and types of services and the human rights to water and sanitation

Development cooperation in the water and sanitation sector

SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report

Article 25: The right to participate in public affairs, voting rights and the right of equal access to public service

Taxation and human rightss

Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women

Harmful practices (joint General Recommendation with CEDAW)

The implementation of the rights of the child during adolescence

The right of persons with disabilities to participate in decision-making

Follow-up to the Durban Review Conference

Article 9: Liberty and security of person

Ability of associations to access financial resources as a vital part of the right to freedom of association & Ability to hold peaceful assemblies as an integral component of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly

Hate speech and incitement to hatred against minorities in the media

Minorities and discrimination based on caste and analogous systems of inherited status

The right to participation of people living in poverty

Comprehensive child protection systems

Use of legislation to regulate activities of human rights defenders

Selected groups of defenders at risk: journalists and media workers, defenders working on land and environment issues; and youth and student defenders

Integration of a human rights-based approach in measures to discourage the demand that fosters all forms of exploitation of persons, especially women and children, and which leads to human trafficking

Information and communication technologies and the sale and sexual exploitation of children

SRSG on violence against children: Annual report

The human rights of migrants on a 2035 agenda for facilitating human mobility

Compendium of good practices in the elimination of discrimination against women

The right of the child to be heard

Freedom of expression, States and the private sector in the digital age

The exercise of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the context of multilateral institutions

Article 6: The right to life

Reporting by States parties

States parties’ obligations (article. 4 of the Convention)

Reporting by States parties (article 1 of the Convention)

Interpretation and application of article 1, paragraphs 1 and 4 of the Convention

Article 5 of the Convention

Article 6: The right to life

HIV/AIDS and the rights of the children

The right of the child to rest, leisure, play, recreational activities, cultural life and the arts

The right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health

Women’s right and the right to food

The rights of children with disabilities

Indigenous children and their rights under the Convention

The right of persons with disabilities to social protection

The right of everyone to benefit from the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he or she is the author (Art. 15, para. 1 (c))

Witchcraft and the human rights of persons with albinism

Extractive industries operating within or near indigenous territories

Extractive industries and indigenous peoples

Rights of indigenous peoples, including their economic, social and cultural rights in the post-2015 development framework

Rights of indigenous peoples on the impact of international investment and free trade on the human rights of indigenous peoples

Conservation measures and their impact on indigenous peoples’ rights

Analysis of the impacts of international investment agreements on the rights of indigenous peoples

Priorities for the work of the Independent Expert and the twentieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities

Reflections on the six-year tenure of the Special Rapporteur

First report: Important developments and substantive issues, March-July 2016

Approach, vision and work methods

Access to medicines in the context of the right-to-health framework

Irregular migration and criminalization of migrants, protection of children in the migration process and the right to housing and health of migrants

Impact of climate change on the right to food

SRSG on violence against children: Annual report

Violence against women: Twenty years of developments to combat violence against women

Challenges and lessons in combating contemporary forms of slavery

Eradicating contemporary forms of slavery from supply chains

SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report

Review of the standard minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners

Prohibition of torture and other ill-treatment from an extraterritorial perspective

Stocktaking exercise on the work of the mandate on its tenth Anniversary

SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report

Issues relating to reservations made upon ratification or accession to the Covenant or the Optional Protocols thereto, or in relation to declarations under article 41 of the Covenant

Regional study: management of the European Union external border and the impact on the human rights of migrants

The issue of trafficking in persons for the removal of organs

Protection of minority rights in conflict prevention

Existing legal standards and practices regarding violence against women in three regional human rights systems and activities being undertaken by civil society regarding the normative gap in international human rights law

Modalities for the establishment of femicides/gender-related killings watch

SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report

Women human rights defenders and those working on women’s rights or gender issues

The protection of sources and whistle-blowers

Violence against indigenous women and girls; rights of indigenous peoples in relation to extractive industries

The impact of bilateral and multilateral trade agreements on the human rights of migrants

Social protection and old age poverty

Sale of children for the purpose of forced labour

Comparative study of enabling environments for associations and businesses

Marginality of economic and social rights

Vision and Working Methods of the Mandate

The right to mental health

Service regulation and human rights to water and sanitation

Report of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent on its nineteenth and twentieth sessions

SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report

Privatization and the right to education

Overview of the activities carried during the first three-year term of the mandate

SRSG on violence against children: Annual report

Implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the work of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples

Child slavery in the artisanal mining and quarrying sector

Article 10: Humane treatment of persons deprived of liberty

Article 14: Administration of justice

The position of aliens under the Covenant

Women’s access to justice

Rights of rural women

Article 4: States of Emergency

Vision-setting report

Implementation of article 2 by States parties

Article 20: Prohibition of propaganda for war and inciting national, racial or religious hatred

Article 7: Prohibition of torture, or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment - replaces GC No. 7

Article 10: Humane treatment of  persons deprived of their liberty - replaces general comment 9 (Annex VI, B)

Article 3: The equality of rights between men and women - replaces GC No. 4

Nature of the General Legal Obligation Imposed on States Parties to the Covenant - replaces GC No. 3

Article 14: Right to Equality before Courts and Tribunals and to Fair Trial - replaces GC No. 13

The obligations of States parties under the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Core obligations of States parties under article 2

The right to education (Art. 13)

Occupational health

Commissions of inquiry

Children’s rights in juvenile justice

The transformative potential of the right to food

Access to justice and the right to food: the way forward

The implementation of the right to social protection through the adoption of social protection floors

Effects of pesticides on the right to food

Analysis of two alternative housing policies: rental and collective housing

The right to freedom of opinion and expression exercised through the Internet

The right of the child to freedom of expression

The right to freedom of opinion and expression in electoral contexts

Challenges faced by groups most at risk when exercising or seeking to exercise the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and/or of association

Corporate responsibility with respect to indigenous rights

Progress and challenges relating to the human rights of IDPs

Enjoyment of the rights to health and adequate housing by migrants

Recapitulation of main thematic issues (irregular migration and criminalization of migrants; protection of children in the migration process; the right to housing and health of migrants)

SRSG on violence against children: Annual report

SRSG on violence against children: Annual report

Roadmap for the next three years: thematic priorities of the new mandate-holder

SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report

SRSG on violence against children: Annual report

Tenth anniversary of the adoption of CEDAW

Economic consequences of marriage, family relations and their dissolution

Gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women

Prevention of racial discrimination in the administration and functioning of the criminal justice system

The right of the child to have his or her best interest taken as a primary consideration

Activities of the Working Group

Eliminating discrimination against women in economic and social life with a focus on economic crisis

Eliminating discrimination against women in cultural and family life, with a focus on the family as a cultural space

Report on the Post-2015 Education Agenda

Public-private partnerships in education

Protecting education against commercialization

Integrating a gender perspective in the right to food

Protection of journalists and press freedom

The right to health and international drug control, compulsory treatment for drug dependence and access to controlled medicines

Health financing in the context of the right to health

Effective and full implementation of the right to health framework, including justiciability of ESCR and the right to health; the progressive realisation of the right to health; the accountability deficit of transnational corporations; and the current ...

Climate change and internal displacement

Durable solutions for internally displaced persons: advancing the agenda: addressing the role of humanitarian and development actors in achieving durable solutions for internally displaced persons through peacebuilding in the aftermath of conflict

Tackling the demand for the sexual exploitation of children

Gender perspectives on torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment

The right to an effective remedy for trafficked persons

Working methods, thematic priorities and vision for a meaningful anti-torture advocacy

The first decade of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children

Continuum of violence against women from the home to the transnational sphere: the challenges of effective redress

Financing for the Realization of the Rights to Water and Sanitation

SRSG on violence against children: Annual report

Preliminary survey on the root causes of attacks and discrimination against persons with albinism

Lifelong learning and the right to education

Sports and healthy lifestyles as contributing factors to the right to health

Workplan and Future Activities of the Special Rapporteur

Education and public information programme

Avoidance of discrimination against women in national strategies for the prevention and control of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)

Measurement and quantification of the unremunerated domestic activities of women and their recognition in the gross national product

Unpaid women workers in rural and urban family enterprises

Article 1, paragraph 1, of the Convention (Descent)

Women and girls with disabilities

Implementing child rights in early childhood

Interlinkages between recognition, justice and development

Accessibility

Normative action for quality education

Justiciability of the right to education

Assessing a decade of progress on the right to food

Climate change and migration

Labour exploitation of migrants

The World Bank and human rights

Comprehensive, rights-based and child-centred care, recovery and reintegration programmes

Corruption and the right to health

SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report

SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report

Application of article 8, paragraph 1, of the Convention

Application of article 9 of the Convention

The primary duty of the State to provide humanitarian assistance and the corresponding rights of internally displaced persons