UN Supervisory Bodies
General Comments of the Human Rights Committee
- General Comment 1: Reporting obligation, 1981
- General Comment 2: Reporting guidelines, 1981
- General Comment 3: Article 2 (Implementation at the national level), 1981
- General Comment 4: Article 3 (Equal enjoyment of civil and political rights by men and women), 1981
- General Comment 5: Article 4 (Derogations), 1981
- General Comment 6: Article 6 (Right to life), 1982
- General Comment 7: Article 7 (Prohibition of torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment), 1982
- General Comment 8: Article 9 (Right to liberty and security of persons), 1982
- General Comment 9: Article 10 (Humane treatment of persons deprived of their liberty), 1982
- General Comment 10: Article 19 (Freedom of opinion), 1983
- General Comment 11: Article 20, 1983
- General Comment 12: Article 1 (Right to self-determination), 1984
- General Comment 13: Article 14 (Administration of Justice), 1984
- General Comment 14: Article 6 (Right to life), 1984
- General Comment 15: The position of aliens under the Covenant, 1986
- General Comment 16: Article 17 (Right to privacy), 1988
- General Comment 17: Article 24 (Rights of the child), 1989
- General Comment 18: Non-discrimination, 1989
- General Comment 19: Article 23 (The family), 1990
- General Comment 20: Article 7 (Prohibition of torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment), 1992
- General Comment 21: Article 10 (Humane treatment of persons deprived of their liberty), 1992
- General Comment 22: Article 18 (Freedom of thought, conscience or religion), 1993
- General Comment 23: Article 27 (Rights of minorities), 1994
- General Comment 24: Reservations to the Covenant or Optional Protocols or declarations under article 41 of the Covenant, 1994
- General Comment 25: Article 25 (Participation in public affairs and the right to vote), 1996
- General Comment 26: Continuity of obligations, 1997
- General Comment 27: Article 12 (Freedom of movement), 1999
- General Comment 28: Article 3 (The equality of rights between men and women), 2000
- General Comment 29: Article 4 (Derogations during a state of emergency), 2001
- General Comment 30: Reporting obligations of States parties under Article 40, 2002
- General Comment 31: The nature of the general legal obligation imposed on States parties, 2004
- General Comment 32: Right to equality before courts and tribunals and to a fair trial, 2007
General Comments of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- General Comment 1: Reporting by States parties, 1989
- General Comment 2: International technical assistance measures (Art. 22), 1990
- General Comment 3: The nature of States parties' obligations (Art. 2 (1)), 1990
- General Comment 4: The right to adequate housing, 1991
- General Comment 5: Persons with disabilities, 1994
- General Comment 6: The economic, social and cultural rights of older persons, 1995
- General Comment 7: The right to adequate housing: forced evictions (Art. 11 (1)), 1997
- General Comment 8: The relationship between economic sanctions and respect for economic, social and cultural rights, 1997
- General Comment 9: The domestic application of the Covenant, 1998
- General Comment 10: The role of national human rights institutions in the protection of economic, social and cultural rights, 1998
- General Comment 11: Plans of action for primary education (Art. 14), 1999
- General Comment 12: The right to adequate food (Art. 11), 1999
- General Comment 13: The right to education (Art. 13), 1999
- General Comment 14: The right to the highest attainable standard of health (Art. 12), 2000
- General Comment 15: The right to water (Arts. 11 and 12), 2002
- General Comment 16: The equal right of men and women to the enjoyment of all economic, social and cultural rights (Art. 3), 2005
- General Comment 17: The right of everyone to benefit from the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author (Art. 15 (1) (c)), 2005
- General Comment 18: The right to work (Art. 6), 2005
- General Comment 19: The right to social security (Art. 9), 2008
General Recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
- General Recommendation 1: States parties' obligations (Art. 4), 1972
- General Recommendation 2: States parties' obligations (Art. 9), 1972
- General Recommendation 3: Reporting by States (Art. 3), 1972
- General Recommendation 4: Reporting by States (Art. 9: demographic composition of the population), 1973
- General Recommendation 5: Reporting by States (Art. 7), 1977
- General Recommendation 6: Overdue reports, 1982
- General Recommendation 7: Implementation of Article 4 (legislation to eradicate racial discrimination), 1985
- General Recommendation 8: Interpretation and application of Article 1(1) and (4) (identification with a particular racial or ethnic group), 1990
- General Recommendation 9: Independence of experts (Application of Article 8 (1)), 1990
- General Recommendation 10: Technical assistance, 1991
- General Recommendation 11: Non-citizens, 1993
- General Recommendation 12: Successor States, 1993
- General Recommendation 13: Training of law enforcement officials in protection of human rights, 1993
- General Recommendation 14: Article 1(1), 1993
- General Recommendation 15: Article 4, 1993
- General Recommendation 16: Application of Article 9, 1993
- General Recommendation 17: Establishment of national institutions to facilitate implementation of the Convention, 1993
- General Recommendation 18: Establishment of an international tribunal to prosecute crimes against humanity, 1994
- General Recommendation 19: Article 3 (Racial Segregation), 1995
- General Recommendation 20: Article 5, 1996
- General Recommendation 21: Right to self-determination, 1996
- General Recommendation 22: Article 5 on refugees and displaced persons, 1996
- General Recommendation 23: Rights of indigenous peoples, 1997
- General Recommendation 24: Article 1, 1999
- General Recommendation 25: Gender-related dimensions of racial discrimination, 2000
- General Recommendation 26: Article 6, 2000
- General Recommendation 27: Discrimination against Roma, 2000
- General Recommendation 28: Follow-up to the World Conference against Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, 2002
- General Recommendation 29: Article 1(1) regarding descent, 2002
- General Recommendation 30: Non-citizens, 2004
- General Recommendation 31: Prevention of racial discrimination in the administration and functioning of the criminal justice system, 2005
General Recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- General Recommendation 1: Reporting guidelines, 1986
- General Recommendation 2: Reporting guidelines, 1987
- General Recommendation 3: Education and public information programmes, 1987
- General Recommendation 4: Reservations, 1987
- General Recommendation 5: temporary special measures, 1988
- General Recommendation 6: Effective national machinery and publicity, 1988
- General Recommendation 7: Resources, 1988
- General Recommendation 8: Article 8, 1988
- General Recommendation 9: Statistical data, 1989
- General Recommendation 10: Tenth anniversary of the adoption of CEDAW, 1989
- General Recommendation 11: Technical advisory services for reporting, 1989
- General Recommendation 12: Violence against women, 1989
- General Recommendation 13: Equal remuneration for work of equal value, 1989
- General Recommendation 14: Female circumcision, 1990
- General Recommendation 15: Women and AIDS, 1990
- General Recommendation 16: Unpaid women workers in rural and urban family enterprises, 1991
- General Recommendation 17: Measurement and quantification of the unremunerated domestic activities of women and their recognition in the GNP, 1991
- General Recommendation 18: Disabled women, 1991
- General Recommendation 19: Violence against women, 1992
- General Recommendation 20: Reservations, 1992
- General Recommendation 21: Equality in marriage and family relations, 1994
- General Recommendation 22: Article 20 of the Convention, 1995
- General Recommendation 23: Women in political and public life, 1997
- General Recommendation 24: Article 12 - Women and health, 1999
- General Recommendation 25: Article 4 paragraph 1 - Temporary special measures, 2004
General Comments of the Committee on the Rights of the Child
- General Comment 1: The aims of education, 2001
- General Comment 2: The role of independent human rights institutions, 2002
- General Comment 3: HIV/AIDS and the rights of the child, 2003
- General Comment 4: Adolescent Health, 2003
- General Comment 5: General measures of implementation for the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 2003
- General Comment 6: Treatment of unaccompanied and separated children outside their country of origin, 2005
- General Comment 7: Implementing child rights in early childhood, 2005
- General Comment 8: The right of the child to protection from corporal punishment and other cruel or degrading forms of punishment (arts. 19; 28, para. 2; and 37, inter alia), 2006
- General Comment 9: The rights of children with disabilities, 2006
- General Comment 10: Children’s rights in juvenile justice, 2007
