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Protecting civic space critical to ensuring redress and accountability for victims of torture - 26 June 2021

6/24/2021

Statements/Messages

Sp. Rapporteur on torture
Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of the Committee against Torture
Committee against Torture
Fund for Victims of Torture

Torture and inhuman treatment

E F S R C A

The right to freedom of religion or belief and the right to live free from violence and discrimination based on SOGI are both built on a promise of human freedom

5/14/2021

Statements/Messages

Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity
Sp. Rapporteur on Myanmar
Independent expert on Somalia
Sp. Rapporteur on occupied Palestine
Special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Committee on the Rights of the Child
Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights
Committee against Torture
Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of the Committee against Torture
Sp. Rapporteur on freedom of expression
Sp. Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism
Special Rapporteur on internally displaced persons
Special Rapporteur on the elimination of discrimination against persons affected by leprosy and their family members
WG on Arbitrary Detention
Working Group on the use of mercenaries
Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights
Sp. Rapporteur on the right to education
Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples
Sp. Rapporteur on independence of judges and lawyers
Special Rapporteur on Minorities Issues
Sp. Rapporteur on the right to food
Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order
Independent expert older persons
Sp. Rapporteur on torture
Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons especially women and children
Sp. Rapporteur on the right to everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence
Sp. Rapporteur on violence against women
Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises

Sexual orientation and gender identity
Religious intolerance
Mercenaries
Right to drinking water
Cultural rights
Education
Environment
Indigenous peoples
Leprosy
Minorities
Right to food
Independence of judiciary
Internally displaced persons
Freedom of opinion and expression
Human rights defenders
Older persons
Torture and inhuman treatment
Traffic in persons
Health
Terrorism
Slavery
Human Rights and International Solidarity
Disability
Truth justice and reparation
International Order
Violence against women
Summary or arbitrary executions
Arbitrary detention
Freedom of association
Transnational corporations

E F S R C A

COVID-19 exacerbates the risk of ill-treatment and torture worldwide – UN experts

6/26/2020

Statements/Messages

Sp. Rapporteur on torture
Committee against Torture
Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of the Committee against Torture
Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Fund for Victims of Torture

Torture and inhuman treatment

E F S R C A

26 June - Joint statement - UDHR70

6/26/2018

Statements/Messages

Committee against Torture
Fund for Victims of Torture
Sp. Rapporteur on torture
Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of the Committee against Torture

Torture and inhuman treatment

E F S R C A

Leave no LGBT person behind

5/16/2018

Statements/Messages

Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of the Committee against Torture
Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
Sp. Rapporteur on the right to education
Sp. Rapporteur on the right to everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
Sp. Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing
Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity
Sp. Rapporteur on the right to food
Sp. Rapporteur on torture
Sp. Rapporteur on violence against women
Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls

Extreme poverty
Education
Right to food
Adequate housing
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Torture and inhuman treatment
Health
Violence against women
Women

E F S R C A

Chairperson's statement to the 72nd GA session: 13 October 2017

10/13/2017

Statements/Messages

Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of the Committee against Torture

Torture and inhuman treatment

E F S R C A

Statement by Sir Malcolm Evans, Chairperson of the Subcommittee on prevention of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment at the 71st session of the General Assembly

10/18/2016

Statements/Messages

Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of the Committee against Torture

E F S R C A

International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, 26 June

6/24/2016

Statements/Messages
Press Releases

Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of the Committee against Torture

Torture and inhuman treatment

E F S R C A

Statement by Mr. Malcolm Evans, Chairperson Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment at the 70th session of the General Assembly

10/20/2015

Statements/Messages

Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of the Committee against Torture

E F S R C A

Trauma of torture victims should not be overlooked amid migration challenges, UN experts remind States

6/24/2015

Statements/Messages
Press Releases

Committee against Torture
Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of the Committee against Torture
Fund for Victims of Torture
Sp. Rapporteur on torture

Torture and inhuman treatment

E F S R C A

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