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There are multiple UN Human Rights Bodies that can be highly significant for women’s and girls’ rights advocacy. We are very familiar with the work of the CEDAW Committee on the Convention for the Elimination on Discrimination Against Women. But, it can be
important to visit the sites of the other Human Rights Bodies to find additional ways to promote gender issues, rights, and policies.</p>
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Just one more example is the UN Committee on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights -
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<span style="color:blue">https://www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/cescr/pages/cescrindex.aspx</span></a>. The Committee recently adopted a Statement on the Pledge to “Leave No One Behind,”
<a href="https://undocs.org/E/C.12/2019/1" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;">
<span style="color:blue">https://undocs.org/E/C.12/2019/1</span></a> - <span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; color:black; background:white">
All States parties to the International Covenant on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights are obliged to submit regular reports to the Committee on how the rights are being implemented. States must report initially within two years of accepting the Covenant and
thereafter every five years. The Committee examines each report and addresses its concerns and recommendations to the State party in the form of “concluding observations”.</span></p>
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<a href="https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/Pages/HumanRightsBodies.aspx" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:blue">https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/Pages/HumanRightsBodies.aspx</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; color:black">The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) works to offer the best expertise and support to the different human rights monitoring mechanisms in the United Nations
system : UN Charter-based bodies, including the Human Rights Council, and bodies created under the international human rights treaties and made up of independent experts mandated to monitor State parties' compliance with their treaty obligations. Most of these
bodies receive secretariat support from the Human Rights Council and Treaties Division of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/Pages/Home.aspx" title="Human Rights Council" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#663399">Human Rights
Council</span></a></span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/UPRMain.aspx" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#663399">Universal Periodic Review</span></a></span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CHR/Pages/CommissionOnHumanRights.aspx" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#663399">Commission on Human
Rights</span></a> (replaced by the Human Rights Council)</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/SP/Pages/Welcomepage.aspx" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#663399">Special Procedures of the Human
Rights Council</span></a></span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/ComplaintProcedure/Pages/HRCComplaintProcedureIndex.aspx" title="Human Rights Council Complaint Procedure" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#663399">Human
Rights Council Complaint Procedure</span></a></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">There are ten human rights treaty bodies that monitor implementation of the <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/InternationalLaw.aspx" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#663399">core
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CERD/Pages/CERDIndex.aspx" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#663399">Committee on the Elimination of
Racial Discrimination</span></a> (CERD)</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CESCR/pages/cescrindex.aspx" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#663399">Committee on Economic, Social
and Cultural Rights</span></a> (CESCR)</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CCPR/Pages/CCPRIndex.aspx" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#663399">Human Rights Committee</span></a> (CCPR)</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CEDAW/pages/cedawindex.aspx" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#663399">Committee on the Elimination
of Discrimination against Women</span></a> (CEDAW)</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CAT/pages/catindex.aspx" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#663399">Committee against Torture</span></a> (CAT) </span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CRC/Pages/CRCIndex.aspx" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#663399">Committee on the Rights of the Child</span></a> (CRC)</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CMW/Pages/CMWIndex.aspx" title="Committee on Migrant Workers" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#663399">Committee
on Migrant Workers</span></a> (CMW)</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/OPCAT/Pages/OPCATIndex.aspx" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#663399">Subcommittee on Prevention of
Torture</span></a> (SPT)</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CRPD/Pages/CRPDIndex.aspx" title="Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#663399">Committee
on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities</span></a> (CRPD)</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CED/Pages/CEDIndex.aspx" title="Committee on Enforced Disappearance" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#663399">Committee
on Enforced Disappearances</span></a> (CED)</span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; color:black">Charter bodies include the former Commission on Human Rights, the Human Rights Council , and Special Procedures. The Human Rights Council, which replaced the Commission on Human Rights,
held its first meeting on 19 June 2006. This intergovernmental body, which meets in Geneva 10 weeks a year, is composed of 47 elected United Nations Member States who serve for an initial period of 3 years, and cannot be elected for more than two consecutive
terms. The Human Rights Council is a forum empowered to prevent abuses, inequity and discrimination, protect the most vulnerable, and expose perpetrators.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; color:black">The Human Rights Council is a separate entity from OHCHR. This distinction originates from the separate mandates they were given by the General Assembly. Nevertheless, OHCHR provides
substantive support for the meetings of the Human Rights Council, and follow-up to the Council's deliberations.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; color:black">Special Procedures is the general name given to the mechanisms established by the Commission on Human Rights and assumed by the Human Rights Council to address either specific country
situations or thematic issues in all parts of the world. Special Procedures are either an individual -a special rapporteur or independent expert-or a working group. They are prominent, independent experts working on a voluntary basis, appointed by the Human
Rights Council.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; color:black">Special Procedures' mandates usually call on mandate-holders to examine, monitor, advise and publicly report on human rights situations in specific countries or territories, known
as country mandates, or on human rights issues of particular concern worldwide, known as thematic mandates. All report to the Human Rights Council on their findings and recommendations, and many also report to the General Assembly. They are sometimes the only
mechanism that will alert the international community to certain human rights issues, as they can address situations in all parts of the world without the requirement for countries to have had ratified a human rights instrument.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; color:black">As of 1 August 2017, there are 44 <a href="https://spinternet.ohchr.org/_Layouts/SpecialProceduresInternet/ViewAllCountryMandates.aspx?Type=TM" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#663399">thematic
mandates</span></a> and 12 <a href="https://spinternet.ohchr.org/_Layouts/SpecialProceduresInternet/ViewAllCountryMandates.aspx" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#663399">country mandates</span></a>.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; color:black">OHCHR supports the work of rapporteurs, independent experts and working groups through its Special Procedures Branch (SPB) which services all but one of the thematic mandates and provides
centralised support to the Special Procedures as a system. The Field Operations and Technical Cooperation Division (FOTCD) supports the work of country-mandates.</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Segoe UI Semilight",sans-serif; color:#0072C6">Treaty-based bodies</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; color:black">There are nine <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/InternationalLaw.aspx" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#663399">core
international human rights treaties</span></a>, the most recent one -- on enforced disappearance -- entered into force on 23 December 2010. Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, all UN Member States have ratified at least
one core international human rights treaty, and 80 percent have ratified four or more.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; color:black">There are currently ten human rights treaty bodies, which are committees of independent experts. Nine of these treaty bodies monitor implementation of the core international human
rights treaties while the tenth treaty body, the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture, established under the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, monitors places of detention in States parties to the Optional Protocol.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; color:black">The treaty bodies are created in accordance with the provisions of the treaty that they monitor. OHCHR supports the work of treaty bodies and assists them in harmonizing their working
methods and reporting requirements through their secretariats. </span></p>
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