UN Human Rights Bodies
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The OIAHR helps LWF member churches, field programs and partners make use of the following key UN human rights bodies to strengthen their witness for justice and human dignity.
Human Rights Council
The UN Human Rights Council is the leading international political forum on human rights. As a nongovernmental organization in consultative status with the UN, the LWF attends Human Rights Council sessions and makes written or oral statements.
Universal Periodic Review
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The Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) evaluates how each UN member state is meeting its human rights obligations and commitments. The LWF participates in this process by submitting information on the human rights situation in the specific country under review.
Human Rights Accountability Project page on UPR
Special Procedures
The Human Rights Council has over 30 monitoring, reporting and advising mechanisms called “Special Procedures,” which focus on thematic issues or specific country situations.
The LWF both submits directly and assists LWF partners to submit relevant information to any of the Special Procedures, and makes statements during corresponding sessions of the Human Rights Council.
Human Rights Accountability Project page on Special Procedures
Human Rights Treaty Bodies
There are seven UN human rights “treaty bodies,” or committees of independent experts, that examine implementation of the core international human rights treaties.
The LWF attends treaty body sessions and provides material for committee members to increase their understanding of the situation in a given country. The OIAHR works in particular to facilitate “alternative reports” from LWF member churches, field programs and partners.
Human Rights Accountability Project page on Human Rights Treaty Bodies
Get involved
Find out more or submit information about the human rights situation in your country on the Web site of the Human Rights Accountability Project.
Use the country ratification chart to see which international human rights treaties your country has agreed to implement.
Related Sites
- UN Human Rights Council
- Universal Periodic Review
- Special Procedures
- Human Rights Committee (HRC)
- Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)
- Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
- Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
- Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
- Committee against Torture (CAT)
- Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW)
- Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
For further information please contact:
Mr Ralston Deffenbaugh, Assistant General Secretary for International Affairs and Human Rights
