Introduction

Membership

Conferences of States parties

Meetings of State parties/Elections

Upcoming elections for all treaty bodies

Convention
  - Elaboration of the Convention
  - Promoting the ratification

Rules of procedure

Working methods

Annual reports

Reports of the Secretary General

Document on relationship with NGOs

Document on relationship with NHRIs

Key documents related to reporting cycles

States parties report

List of issues (LOIs)

Replies to LOIs

Concluding observations

Follow-up Procedure on Concluding Observations

Additional information on the implementation of the Convention

Reporting Guidelines

Reporting guidelines

Guidelines for the review in the absence of a report

Common Core Document

Guidance Note on the constructive dialogue with human rights treaty bodies

Documentation tools on reporting to the UN Treaty Bodies

Complaints Procedure

General information

Model complaint form

Jurisprudence database

Reports of the Committee on Follow-up to individual complaints

Guiding Principles for the search for Disappeared persons

Illustrated version of the guiding principles in Spanish (OHCHR-Mexico)

Nepalese translation of the Guiding Principles

Written submissions regarding the Draft Guiding Principles for the Search for Disappeared Persons

Statement on the ILC Draft Convention on Crimes against Humanity

Decisions/Statements

Information for Civil Society actors and National Human Rights Institutions

Accreditation

Secretariat contact details

How to direct complaints to the treaty bodies

Press Releases

Statements

Sessions

Calendar of country reviews by treaty bodies

Deadlines for the submission of documentation

What are urgent actions?
English | French | Spanish

General Information and model for the submission of an urgent action request

Report on urgent actions

List of registered urgent actions (Excel)

Treaty body database

Universal human rights index

Fact Sheet No.6/Rev.3

Brochure: 10th anniversary of the Convention
English | French | Spanish

Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances 

Treaty Body Webcast

Amnesty International
Human Rights Watch
International Federation for Human Rights
International Coalition Against Enforced Disappearances
TRIAL International
World Organisation Against Torture

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