General Comments - Treaty Bodies

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General Comment No. 37 on Article 21 (Right of peaceful assembly) - CCPR325000
General comment No. 36 - Article 6 (the right to life) - CCPR325001
General comment No. 35- Article 9 (Liberty and security of person) - CCPR325002
General comment No. 34 - Article 19: (Freedoms of opinion and expression) - CCPR325003
General comment No.33: (Obligations of States parties under the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights) - CCPR325004
General Comment No. 32: Article 14: (Right to Equality before Courts and Tribunals and to Fair Trial) - CCPR325005
General Comment No. 31 (Nature of the General Legal Obligation Imposed on States Parties to the Covenant) - CCPR325006
General Comment No. 30: (Reporting Obligations of States parties under article 40 of the Covenant) - CCPR325007
General Comment No. 29: article 4 (States of Emergency) - CCPR325008
General Comment No. 28: Article 3 (The equality of rights between men and women) - CCPR325009
General Comment No. 27: Article 12 (Freedom of movement) - CCPR325010
General Comment No. 26: (continuity of obligations to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights) - CCPR325011
General Comment No. 25: Article 25 (The right to participate in public affairs, voting rights and the right of equal access to public service) - CCPR325012
General Comment No. 24: (Issues relating to reservations made upon ratification or accession to the Covenant or the Optional Protocols thereto, or in relation to declarations…325013
General Comment No. 23: Article 27 (The rights of minorities) - CCPR325014
General Comment No. 22: Article 18 (The right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion) - CCPR325015
General Comment No. 21: Article 10 (Humane treatment of persons deprived of their liberty) - CCPR325016
General Comment No. 20: Article 7 (Prohibition of torture, or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment) - CCPR325017
General Comment No. 19: Article 23 (Protection of the Family, the Right to Marriage and Equality of the Spouses) - CCPR325018
General Comment No. 18: (Non-discrimination) - CCPR325019
General Comment No. 17: Article 24 (Rights of the child) - CCPR325020
General Comment No. 16: Article 17 (The right to respect of privacy, family, home and correspondence, and protection of honour and reputation) - CCPR325021
General Comment No. 15: (The position of aliens under the Covenant) - CCPR325022
General Comment No. 14: Article 6 (The right to life) - CCPR325070
General Comment No. 13: Article 14 (Administration of justice) - CCPR325071
General Comment No. 12: Article 1 (The right to self-determination of peoples) - CCPR325072
General Comment No. 11: Article 20 (Prohibition of propaganda for war and inciting national, racial or religious hatred) - CCPR325073
General Comment No. 10: Article 19 (Freedom of opinion and expression)325074
General Comment No. 9: Article 10 (Humane treatment of persons deprived of liberty) - CCPR325075
General Comment No. 8: Article 9 (Right to liberty and security of persons) - CCPR325076
General Comment No. 7: Article 7 (Torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment) - CCPR325077
General Comment No. 6: Article 6 (The right to life) - CCPR325078
General Comment No. 5: Article 4 (Derogations) - CCPR325079
General Comment No. 4: Article 3 (Equal right of men and women to the enjoyment of all civil and political rights) - CCPR325080
General Comment No. 3: Article 2 (Implementation at the national level) - CCPR325081
General Comment No. 2: (Reporting guidelines, Consolidated guidelines for State reports under the International Covenant on Civil and Politiical Rights) - CCPR325082
General Comment No. 1: (Reporting Obligation) - CCPR325083
General comment No. 4: (on the implementation of article 3 of the Convention in the context of article 22) - CAT325084
General comment No. 3: (Implementation of article 14 by States parties) - CAT325085
General Comment No. 2: (Implementation of article 2 by States parties) - CAT325086
General Comment No. 01: (Implementation of article 3 of the Convention in the context of article 22) - CAT325087
Guidelines on the elaboration of General Recommendations - CERD325088
General Recommendation No.36: (Preventing and Combating Racial Profiling by Law Enforcement Officials) - CERD325089
General recommendation No. 35: Combatting racist hate speech) - CERD325090
General recommendation No. 34: (Racial discrimination against people of African descent) - CERD325091
General recommendation No. 33: (Follow-up to the Durban Review Conference) - CERD325092
General recommendation No. 32: (The meaning and scope of special measures in the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms Racial Discrimination) - CERD325093
General recommendation No. 31: (on the prevention of racial discrimination in the administration and functioning of the criminal justice system) - CERD325094
General recommendation No. 30: (discrimination against non-citizens) - CERD325135
General recommendation No. 29: Article 1 (paragraph 1, of the Convention - Descent) - CERD325136
General recommendation No. 28: (the follow-up to the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance) - CERD325137
General recommendation No. 27: (discrimination against Roma) - CERD325138
General recommendation No. 26: article 6 of the Convention - CERD325139
General recommendation No. 25: (gender-related dimensions of racial discrimination) - CERD325140
General recommendation No. 24: concerning article 1 of the Convention - CERD325141
General recommendation No. 23: (the rights of indigenous peoples) - CERD325142
General recommendation No. 22: Article 5 (the Convention on refugees and displaced persons) - CERD325143
General recommendation No. 21: )the right to self-determination) - CERD325144
General recommendation No. 20: Article 5 of the Convention - CERD325145
Joint general comment No. 4 of CMW and No. 23 of CRC on State obligations regarding the human rights of children in the context of international migration in countries of ori…325147
Joint general comment No. 3 of CMW and No. 22 of CRC on the general principles regarding the human rights of children in the context of international migration - Committee on…325146
General comment No. 2: (the rights of migrant workers in an irregular situation and members of their families) - Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW)325148
General comment No. 1: (migrant domestic workers) - Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW)325149
General comment No. 25: (children’s rights in relation to the digital environment) - Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)325161
General comment No. 24: (children’s rights in the child justice system) - Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)325162
General Comment No. 23: the context of International Migration: States parties' obligations in particular with respect to countries of transit and destination) - Committee on…325164
General Comment No. 22: (the CRC in the context of International Migration: General principles) - Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)325163
General comment No. 21: (children in street situations) - Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)325165
The Rights of the Child during Adolescence: Based on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child General Comment No. 20 - Child Rights Resource Center 2022325166
General comment No. 19: Article 4 (public budgeting for the realization of children’s rights) - Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)325167
Joint general comment No. 18: (Harmful practices) - Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)325168
General comment No. 17: Article 31 (the right of the child to rest, leisure, play, recreational activities, cultural life and the arts ) - Committee on the Rights of the Chil…325169
General comment No. 16: (State obligations regarding the impact of the business sector on children’s rights ) - Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)325170
General comment No. 15: Article 24 (the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health ) - Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)325171
General comment No. 14: Article 3, para. 1 (the right of the child to have his or her best interests taken as a primary consideration) - Committee on the Rights of the Child …325172
General comment No. 13: (The right of the child to freedom from all forms of violence) - Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)325173
General comment No.12: (The right of the child to be heard) - Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)325174
General Comments No. 11: (Indigenous children and their rights under the Convention) - Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)325175
General Comment No. 10: (Children’s rights in juvenile justice) - Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)325176
General Comment No. 9: (The rights of children with disabilities) - Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)325177
General Comment N. 8: (The right of the child to protection from corporal punishment and other cruel or degrading forms of punishment (arts. 19; 28, para. 2; and 37, inter al…325178
General comment No. 7: (Implementing child rights in early childhood) - Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)325179
General Comment No. 6: (Treatment of Unaccompanied and Separated Children Outside Their Country of Origin) - Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)325180
General Comment No. 5: (General Measures of Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child) - Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)325181
General comment No. 4: (Adolescent health and development in the context of the Convention on the Rights of the Child) - Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)325182
General comment No. 3: (HIV/AIDS and the rights of the children) - Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)325183
General comment No. 2: (The Role of Independent National Human Rights Institutions in the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of the Child) - Committee on the Rights of th…325184
General comment No. 1: (The Aims of Education) - Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)325185
General recommendation No. 39: (The rights of Indigenous Women and Girls) - CEDAW325358
General recommendation No. 38: (Trafficking in women and girls in the context of global migration) - CEDAW325359
General Recommendation No. 37: (Gender-related dimensions of disaster risk reduction in the context of climate change) - CEDAW325360
General recommendation No. 36 (The right of girls and women to education) - CEDAW325361
General recommendation No. 35: (Gender-based violence against women) - CEDAW325362
General recommendation No. 34: (The rights of rural women ) - CEDAW325363
General recommendation No. 33: (Women’s access to justice) - CEDAW325364
General recommendation No. 32: (The gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women) - CEDAW325365
General recommendation No. 31: (Harmful practices) - CEDAW325366
General recommendation No. 30: (Women in conflict prevention, conflict and post-conflict situations) - CEDAW325367
General recommendation No. 29: Article 16 (Economic consequences of marriage, family relations and their dissolution) - CEDAW325368
General recommendation No. 28: (The core obligations of States parties under article 2 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women) - CE…325369