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	OHCHR Report 2015
	OHCHR Management Plan 2014-2017
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Special Procedures

Country visits by Special Procedures

Most recent Special Procedures' reports

Report of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent - Mission to the United States of America (A/HRC/33/61/Add.2)

Report of the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice - Mission to the United States of America (A/HRC/32/44/Add.2)

Report of the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises - Mission to the United States of America (A/HRC/26/25/Add.4)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes - Mission to the Marshall Islands and the United States of America (A/HRC/21/48/Add.1)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples - The situation of indigenous peoples in the United States of America (A/HRC/21/47/Add.1)

>>Full list of documents in the Charter-based bodies Database

Main page of the Special Procedures

Most recent concluding observations

Committee against Torture
Concluding observations (2014) CAT/C/USA/CO/3-5

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Concluding observations (2014) CERD/C/USA/CO/7-9

Human Rights Committee
Concluding observations (2014) CCPR/C/USA/CO/4

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children child prostitution and child pornography
Concluding observations (2013) CRC/C/OPSC/USA/CO/2

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict
Concluding observations (2013) CRC/C/OPAC/USA/CO/2

>>Full list of documents in the Treaty Body Database

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Field Operations and Technical Cooperation Division (FOTCD)
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Americas Section
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