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The United Nations Human Rights Treaties

How to Complain About Human Rights Treaty Violations

This section was last updated in 2012.


  • Abbreviations
  • Glossary
  • Introduction
  • Overview of the Four Principal Human Rights Treaties Permitting Complaints
  • The Complaint Procedures
  • CCPR
  • CAT
  • CERD
  • CEDAW
  • CRPD
  • CED
  • Choosing A Forum
  • Follow-up
  • Investigations
  • State Reporting
  • Other Treaties
  • A hard copy of the book "How to Complain to the UN Human Rights Treaty System, c. 2002" can be obtained from:

    1. in softbound from Transnational Publishers, info@transnationalpubs.com, phone +1 914-693-5100, fax +1 914-693-4430, ISBN 1-57105-283-6
    2. in hardbound from Brill Academic Publishers, http://www.brill.nl/,:

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      The Netherlands
      Phone: + 31-71-535-3519 OR + 31-71-535-3586;
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