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Update of the Situation of Human Rights in Indian-Administered Kashmir and Pakistan-Administered Kashmir from May 2018 to April 2019

Report on the situation of human rights in Kashmir: Developments in the Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir from June 2016 to April 2018, and general human rights concerns in Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan

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UN Human Rights Report 2020 UN Human Rights Report 2020
OHCHR Management Plan 2014-2017 OHCHR Management Plan 2018-2021
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Special Procedures

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Most recent Special Procedures' reports

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation - Mission to India (A/HRC/39/55/Add.1)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing - Mission to India (A/HRC/34/51/Add.1)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions - Follow-up to country recommendations - India (A/HRC/29/37/Add.3)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences - Mission to India (A/HRC/26/38/Add.1)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions - Mission to India (A/HRC/23/47/Add.1)

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Most recent concluding observations

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Concluding observations (2019) CRPD/C/IND/CO/1

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Concluding observations (2014) CEDAW/C/IND/CO/4-5

Committee on the Rights of the Child
Concluding observations (2014) CRC/C/IND/CO/3-4

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict
Concluding observations (2014) CRC/C/OPAC/IND/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 (2014) CRC/C/OPSC/IND/CO/1

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Concluding observations (2008) E/C.12/IND/CO/5

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Concluding observations (2007) CERD/C/IND/CO/19

Human Rights Committee
Concluding observations (1997) CCPR/C/79/Add.81


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Feature stories
Leprosy survivor, Rachna Kumari: “Every person has the right to live life with dignity”
24-07-2019

Bachelet applauds Indian Supreme Court LGBT ruling
07-09-2018
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