UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
The Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights was the main subsidiary body of the Commission on Human Rights. The future of the Sub-Commission may be to assume its functions under the Human Rights Council in line with General Assembly resolution A/RES/60/251 establishing the Human Rights Council. It was originally established by the Commission on Human Rights at its first session in 1947, under the authority of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), as the Sub-Commission on the Prevention of Discrimination against Minorities. In 1999, ECOSOC changed the title to Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights. The Sub-Commission was composed of 26 experts who acted in their personal capacity and were elected with due regard to equitable geographical distribution. The Sub-Commission had six main working groups: on Administration of Justice; Communications; Contemporary Forms of Slavery; Indigenous Populations; Minorities, and on Transnational Corporations. Among the main themes addressed wwere: racism; the violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms in any part of the world; economic, social and cultural rights; civil and political rights, i.e., torture, detention, disappearances and summary executions, freedom of expression, the independence of the judiciary, impunity and religious intolerance; the human rights of women, children, migrant workers, minorities and displaced persons. This database contains Sub-Commission reports relevant to the work of UNHCR.
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- Afghanistan 3
- Congo, Republic of the 1
- Finland 1
- Mexico 2
- Togo 1
- Albinism/Persons with Albinism 1
- Apartheid 5
- Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 2
- Asylum-seekers 1
- Child labour 4
- Child prostitution 4
- Children's rights 1
- Children-at-risk 5
- Conflict situation 1
- Contemporary forms of slavery 38
- Corruption 1
- Crimes against humanity 3
- Criminal justice 1
- Death penalty 1
- Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 66
- Economic, social and cultural rights 21
- Effective remedy 7
- Equality before the law 1
- Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 1
- Extreme poverty 9
- Foreign occupation 2
- Freedom of assembly and association 1
- Freedom of movement 2
- Gender discrimination 1
- Genocide 2
- Gross, systematic and large-scale 12
- HIV and AIDS 1
- Habeas corpus 2
- Hmong 6
- Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 5
- Human rights and fundamental freedoms 95
- Impunity 6
- Independence of judiciary 1
- Indigenous persons 37
- Internal armed conflict 1
- Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 3
- Migrant rights 1
- Military courts 2
- Non-state agents of persecution 1
- Opposition 1
- Persons with disabilities 1
- Population transfers 5
- Pre-trial detention 3
- Prevention of discrimination 6
- Prison or detention conditions 9
- Property restitution 3
- Prostitution / Commercial sex work 4
- Protection of civilian persons in time of war 1
- Racial / Ethnic persecution 33
- Religious discrimination 28
- Right to development 1
- Right to education 3
- Right to food 1
- Right to health 3
- Right to leave 1
- Right to life 4
- Rights of non-citizens 4
- Roma 1
- Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 21
- Sale of children 4
- Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 14
- Small arms 2
- Smuggling of persons 1
- State of emergency 4
- Terrorism 10
- Trafficking in persons 1
- Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 1
- Witnesses 1
- Women's rights 9
- Women-at-risk 20
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