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Belgium and UN Charter-based Bodies

Belgium and UN Treaty Bodies

Universal Periodic Review

Core documents for the current and previous cycles

Special Procedures

Country visits by Special Procedures

Most recent Special Procedures' reports

Report of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism

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 Belgium (A/HRC/33/43/Add.2)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences - Mission to Belgium (A/HRC/30/35/Add.2)

Report of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent - Visit to Belgium (E/CN.4/2006/19/Add.1)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, Ms. Ofelia Calcetas-Santos: Mission to Belgium and the Netherlands (E/CN.4/2000/73/Add.1)

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Main page of the Special Procedures

Most recent concluding observations

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Concluding observations (2020) E/C.12/BEL/CO/5

Human Rights Committee
Concluding observations (2019) CCPR/C/BEL/CO/6

Committee on the Rights of the Child
Concluding observations (2019) CRC/C/BEL/CO/5-6

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Concluding observations (2014) CEDAW/C/BEL/CO/7

Concluding observations (2014) CRPD/C/BEL/CO/1

Committee on Enforced Disappearances
Concluding observations (2014) CED/C/BEL/CO/1

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Concluding observations (2014) CERD/C/BEL/CO/16-19

Committee against Torture
Concluding observations (2014) CAT/C/BEL/CO/3

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children child prostitution and child pornography
Concluding observations (2010) CRC/C/OPSC/BEL/CO/1

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict
Concluding observations (2006) CRC/C/OPAC/BEL/CO/1

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