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OHCHR in Yemen
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UN Human Rights Report 2020
OHCHR Management Plan 2018-2021
Human Rights in Action (PDF)
A Handbook for Civil Society (PDF)
Status of Ratifications
Reporting Status
Standing invitation to Special Procedures
(No invitation extended)
Voluntary Pledges and Commitments
(Not member of the Human Rights Council)
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Yemen and UN Charter-based Bodies
Yemen and UN Treaty Bodies
Country visits by Special Procedures
Most recent Special Procedures' reports
Report submitted by the independent expert on extreme poverty: Mission to Yemen (E/CN.4/2004/43/Add.1)
Most recent reports by the UN Secretary-General, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Secretariat
Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights containing the findings of the Group of Independent Eminent International and Regional Experts and a summary of technical assistance provided by the Office of the High Commissioner to the National Commission of Inquiry (A/HRC/39/43)
English (Advance Edited Version) | Arabic (unofficial version)
Situation of human rights in Yemen - Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (A/HRC/33/38)
Situation of human rights in Yemen - Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (A/HRC/21/37)
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Main page of the Special Procedures
Most recent concluding observations
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Concluding observations (2021) CEDAW/C/YEM/CO/7-8
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict
Concluding observations (2014) CRC/C/OPAC/YEM/CO/1
Committee on the Rights of the Child
Concluding observations (2014) CRC/C/YEM/CO/4
Concluding observations (2012) CCPR/C/YEM/CO/5
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Concluding observations (2011) E/C.12/YEM/CO/2
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Concluding observations (2011) CERD/C/YEM/CO/17-18
Committee against Torture
Concluding observations (2010) CAT/C/YEM/CO/2/REV.1
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children child prostitution and child pornography
Concluding observations (2009) CRC/C/OPSC/YEM/CO/1
>>Full list of documents in the Treaty Body Database
OHCHR established its Country Office in Yemen (Sana'a) in September 2012, at the invitation of the Government, with the signing of the official agreement between OHCHR and the Government of Yemen. In May 2019, OHCHR opened a sub-office in Aden. In accordance with its mandate, as set out in General Assembly resolution 48/141 of 20 December 1993, OHCHR advises and assists the Government on strategies, programmes and measures to promote and protect human rights in Yemen, in compliance with international human rights law and international humanitarian law. More about OHCHR in Yemen.
Field Operations and Technical Cooperation Division (FOTCD)
Contact is in Geneva, Switzerland.
Middle East and North Africa Section
"The people of Yemen look to us for hope, for help – for life," Bachelet says
"It is my right to raise my voice. Do not underestimate me."
Supporting Yemen human rights NGOs help bring peace and tolerance
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