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Human Rights

  • The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is the principal United Nations office mandated to promote and protect human rights for all. It supports the work of special procedures (including special rapporteurs, independent experts, and working groups appointed by the Council) and UN treaty bodies to monitor human rights in different countries or in relation to specific issues.
     
     
    Committee on the Rights of the Child - Concluding observations (2015)
     
    Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - Concluding observations (2016)
  • The Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities was adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on 10 November 1994. It is one of the most comprehensive treaties designed to protect the rights of persons belonging to national minorities. The convention’s monitoring procedure requires each State to submit a first report within one year of entry into force and additional reports every five subsequent years, or upon a specific request of the Committee of Ministers.
     
     
    Fourth Opinion on Sweden, Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities – adopted on 22 June 2017