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South Africa and UN Charter-based Bodies

South Africa and UN Treaty Bodies

Universal Periodic Review

Core documents for the current and previous cycles and letter by the High Commissioner to the Foreign Minister

Special Procedures

Country visits by Special Procedures

Most recent Special Procedures' reports

Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences - Mission to South Africa (A/HRC/32/42/Add.2) Advance Unedited Version

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food - Mission to South Africa (A/HRC/19/59/Add.3)

Report of the Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination - Mission to South Africa (A/HRC/18/32/Add.3)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants - Mission to South Africa (A/HRC/17/33/Add.4)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living - Mission to South Africa (A/HRC/7/16/Add.3)

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Main page of the Special Procedures

Most recent concluding observations

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Concluding observations (2021) CEDAW/C/ZAF/CO/5

Committee against Torture
Concluding observations (2019) CAT/C/ZAF/CO/2

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Concluding observations (2018) E/C.12/ZAF/CO/1

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Concluding observations (2018) CRPD/C/ZAF/CO/1

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children child prostitution and child pornography
Concluding observations (2016) CRC/C/OPSC/ZAF/CO/1

Committee on the Rights of the Child
Concluding observations (2016) CRC/C/ZAF/CO/2

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Concluding observations (2016) CERD/C/ZAF/CO/4-8

Human Rights Committee
Concluding observations (2016) CCPR/C/ZAF/CO/1

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