UNPO-App

Know Your Rights – Your Guide to Human Rights!

Welcome to “Know Your Rights – Your Guide to Human Rights!”. You will now be guided through a series of 11 questions to determine which human rights mechanism is the most appropriate to report the violation that has occurred. Please be aware that at the moment the app only considers the following mechanisms:

*Human Rights Committee

*CESCR Committee

*CERD Committee

*CEDAW Committee

*CAT Committee

*CRC Committee

*CRPD Committee

*Committee on Migrant Workers

*Committee on Enforced Disappearances

*Human Rights Council - revised 1503 procedure

*Universal Periodic Review

*SR on Adequate Housing

*WG on Arbitrary Detention

*SR on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography

*SR on Cultural Rights

*SR on the Right to Education

*IE on Safe, Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment

*WG on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances

*SR on Arbitrary Executions

*SR on Extreme Poverty

*SR on the Right to Food

*SR on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association

*SR on Freedom of Opinion and Expression

*SR on Freedom of Religion or Belief

*SR on the Right to Health

*SR on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders

*SR on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers

*SR on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

*SR on the Rights of IDPs

*WG on Mercenaries

*SR on the Rights of Migrants

*IE on Minority Issues

*SR on the Contemporary Forms of Racism and Discrimination

*SR on Slavery

*SR on Human Rights while Countering Terrorism

*SR on Torture

*SR on Hazardous Substances and Waste

*SR on Trafficking in Persons

*WG on Transnational Corporations

*SR on the Right to Water

*WG on Discrimination against Women in Law and in Practice

*SR on Violence Against Women

*African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights

*Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

*European Court of Human Rights