The Advocates for Human Rights is committed to the impartial promotion and protection of international human rights standards and the rule of law. We hold special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council and special observer status with the African Union.
The Advocates participates in the work of international human rights monitoring by providing written and oral submissions to the UN Human Rights Council and other UN and regional human rights mechanisms. Among these submissions are the UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review of states' human rights obligations. (For information on the UPR and the submission process, visit the United Nations' web page about Universal Periodic Reviews.)
Check out the reports we have submitted for Bahrain, Bahamas, Barbados, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Croatia, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Malawi, Malaysia, Mauritania, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, Poland, Russian Federation, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, and United States. To access a report, simply click on the report's name.
Azerbaijan Human Rights Council - Domestic Violence - Oct. 2017 For background information, click here.
Bahrain Human Rights Council- Death Penalty- Sept 2016 For background information, click here.
Bahamas Human Rights Council - Death Penalty - June 2017 For background information, click here.
Barbados Human Rights Council - Death Penalty - June 2017 For background inforamtion, click here.
Bulgaria Human Rights Council – Domestic Violence – Sept. 2014 For background information, click here.
Human Rights Committee – Women's Human Rights – July 2011 For background information, click here.
Human Rights Council – Women's Human Rights – April 2010 For background information, click here.
Burundi Human Rights Council - Civil and Political Rights - July 2017 For background information, click here.
Cambodia Cambodia: Restrictions on civil society and political participation - Stakeholder Report for the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review - July 2018
Cameroon
Human Rights Council - Death Penalty - Oct. 2017 (French)
Human Rights Council - CAMFAIDS - LGBTI Rights - Oct. 2017 For background information, click here.
Human Rights Council - Alternatives Cameroon - LGBTI Rights - Oct. 2017 For background information, click here.
Convention on the Rights of the Child - List of Issues - Rights of LGBTI Children & Violence Against Girls - July 2016 For background information, click here.
Convention on the Rights of the Child - Suggested List of Issues - Children in Conflict with the Law & Protection & Care of Children - July 2016 For background information, click here. CEDAW – Violence Against Women – Jan. 2014 For background information, click here.
CEDAW – Political Participation of Women – Jan. 2014 For background information, click here.
CEDAW – Women's Education in Cameroon – Jan. 2014 For background information, click here.
African Commission – Women's Rights – Aug. 2013 For background information, click here.
African Commission – Death Penalty and Detention Conditions – Aug. 2013 For background information, click here.
African Commission – LGBTI Rights – Aug. 2013 For background information, click here.
Human Rights Council – Death Penalty – Sept. 2012 For background information, click here.
Central African Republic Human Rights Council – Death Penalty – April 2013 For background information, click here.
Colombia Human Rights Council - Violence Against Women - Oct. 2017 - English Human Rights Council - Violence Against Women - Oct. 2017 - Spanish For background informatoin, click here.
Croatia Committee Against Torture (List of Issues Prior to Reporting) – Violence Against Women – Oct. 2016 For background information, click here.
Human Rights Committee (follow-up report) – Violence Against Women– Oct. 2016; Appendix For background information, click here.
Human Rights Committee – Domestic Violence – Feb. 19, 2015 For background information, click here. Committee Against Torture – Domestic Violence – Oct. 2014 For background information, click here.
CEDAW — Domestic Violence — Oct. 2014 For background information, click here.
Human Rights Council – Domestic Violence – Sept. 2014 For background information, click here.
Human Rights Committee (List of Issues) – Violence Against Women – July 2012 For background information, click here.
Cuba Human Rights Council - Death Penalty - Oct. 2017 For background information, click here.
El Salvador Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (List of Issues)- Violence Against Women - July 2016 For background information, click here.
Human Rights Committee (List of Issues Prior to Reporting) - Violence Against Women - April 2015 For background information, click here.
Ethiopia Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - July 2016 For background information, click here.
African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights – Ethnic Discrimination – Sept. 2014 For background information, click here.
Committee on the Rights of the Child – Ethnic Discrimination – July 2014 For background information, click here.
Human Rights Council – Ethnic Discrimination – Sept. 2013 For background information, click here.
ICESCR – Ethnic Diversity – March 2012 For background information, click here
Human Rights Council – Violations of Human Rights of Minorities – July 2011 For background information, click here.
Human Rights Council – Human Rights Violations Against Minorities – 2009 For background information, click here. Georgia Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (follow-up report) – Violence Against Women – August 2016 For background information. click here.
Ghana Human Rights Council – Rights of Non-Citizens – April 2012 For background information, click here.
African Commission – Liberian Refugees – 2009 For background information, click here.
Guatemala
Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women - Violence Against Women - August 2017
Human Rights Council - Violence Against Women - March 2017
Human Rights Council – Death Penalty – March 2017 For background information, click here.
Human Rights Committee (List of Issues Prior to Reporting) – Violence Against Women – Aug. 2015 For background information, click here.
Honduras Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (List of Issues) – Violence Against Women – Jan. 2016 For Background information, click here.
Human Rights Committee (List of Issues) – Violence Against Women – July 2016 For background information, click here.
Convention Against Torture – Violence Against Women – July 2016 For background information, click here
Human Rights Council – Violence Against Women – Sept. 2014 For background information, click here
India Human Rights Council – Rights of Religious Minorities – Sept. 2016 For background information, click here.
Human Rights Council – Human Rights Violations of Minorities – Sept. 2011 For background information, click here
Iran Committee on the Rights of the Child – Death Penalty – June 2015 For background information, click here
Human Rights Council – Death Penalty – Oct./ April/Nov. 2014 For background information, click here
Human Rights Committee – ICCPR – Death Penalty – Sept. 2011 For background information, click here
Iraq Human Rights Council – Death Penalty – Oct./April/ Nov. 2014 For background information, click here
Jamaica Human Rights Committee (List of Issues) – Death Penalty – Jan. 2016 For background information, click here
Human Rights Committee – ICCPR – Death Penalty – 2011 For background information, click here
Japan Human Rights Council – Death Penalty – March 2017 For background information, click here.
Human Rights Committee – Prison Conditions and Death Penalty – June 2014 For background information, click here Human Rights Council – Death Penalty – April 2012 For background information, click here
Jordan
Stakeholder Report for the United Nations Universal Periodic Review - Death Penalty - July 2018
Kenya African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights - Enforced Disappearances and Extrajudicial Executions - Nov. 2015 For background information, click here Lebanon Human Rights Council – Death Penalty – March 2015 For background information, click here
Liberia
Liberia's Compliance with the International Convenant on Civil and Political Rights Report of Civil Society Organizations in Reply to the List of Issues Regarding Impunity for Past Human Rights Violations (arts. 2, 6, 7 and 14) (June 2018)
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women – Discrimination against Women – List of Issues – Jan. 2015 For background information, click here Human Rights Council – Pretrial Detention – Sept. 2014 For background information, click here
Human Rights Council – Accountability – 2010 For background information, click here CEDAW – 44th Session – July 2009 For background information, click here
Committee on the Rights of the Child (List of Issues) – Child Domestic Workers – Dec. 2013 For background information, click here
Committee on the Rights of the Child (List of Issues) – Article 475 – Dec. 2013 For background information, click here
Human Rights Council – Violence Against Women – Sept. 2011 For background information, click here
Committee Against Torture – Final Shadow Report – Violence Against Women – 2011; Final Shadow Report in Arabic; Final Shadow Report in French For background information, click here
Human Rights Council – Death Penalty – Sept. 2011 For background information, click here
Committee Against Torture – Death Penalty – 2011 For background information, click here
Namibia Committee Against Torture – LGBTI Rights – Oct. 2016 For background information, click here.
Nepal Committee on the Rights of the Child – Child Labor and the Right to Education – April 2016 For background information, click here.
Human Rights Council Violence Against Women March 2015 For background information, click here Poland Human Rights Council– Domestic Violence – March 2017 For background information, click here. Russian Federation Human Rights Council - Domestic Violence - Oct. 2017 For background information, click here.
Human Rights Committee – Death Penalty – Feb. 19, 2015 For background information, click here Human Rights Council – Violence Against Women – April 2013 For background information, click here
Committee Against Torture – Violence Against Women – Nov. 2012 For background information, click here
Saint Kitts and Nevis Human Rights Council - Death Penalty - March 2015 For background information, click here
Saint Lucia Human Rights Council - Death Penalty - March 2015 For background information, click here
South Africa Human Rights Council - Equality and Non-Discrimination - Sept. 2016 For background information, click here South Sudan Human Rights Council - Death Penalty - March 2016 For background information, click here
Sri Lanka Human Rights Council – Death Penalty – March 2017 For background information, click here.
Tunisia Human Rights Council - Women's Rights - Sept. 2016 For background information, click here
Committee Against Torture - Final Shadow Report - Violence Against Women - Apr. 2016 For background information, click here
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - Violence Against Women - January 2016 For background information, click here Turkey Human Rights Council – Violence Against Women – March 2012 For background information, click here
Human Rights Committee – Gender-based Violence – Feb. 2012 For background information, click here
Uganda Human Rights Council - Death Penalty - March 2016 For background information, click here.
Ukraine Human Rights Council- Domestic Violence - March 2017 For background information, click here.
United States Committee Against Torture - Immigrants - List of Issues - 2016 For backgrouf information, click here.
Committee Against Torture – Rights of Non-Citizens – Oct. 2014 For background information, click here
Committee Against Torture – Death Penalty – Oct. 2014 For background information, click here
Human Rights Council – Rights of Non-Citizens – Sept. 2014 For background information, click here
Human Rights Council – Migrant Detention – Sept. 2014 For background information, click here
Human Rights Council – Death Penalty – Sept. 2014 For background information, click here
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination – Death Penalty – July 2014 For background information, click here
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination – Rights of Non-Citizens – July 2014 For background information, click here
UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention – Jan. 2014 For backgroud information, click here. Inter-America Commission on Human Rights – Right to Family Unity For background information, click here
Human Rights Committee – Death Penalty – Oct. 2013 For background information, click here
Human Rights Committee (List of Issues) – Violence Against Women / Immigration and Asylum / Death Penalty – Oct. 2013 For background information, click here
Human Rights Committee – Rights of Non-Citizens – Oct. 2012; Update to report For background information, click here
Special Rapporteur – Detention of Migrants – Jan. 2012 For background information, click here
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights – Immigrant Detention – May 2010 For background information, click here
UPR – Cluster Report on Migrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers – 2010 For background information, click here
UPR 9th Session – 2010 For background information, click here
CERD – Rights of Immigrants and Migrants – July 2007 For background information, click here
Human Rights Committee – Rights of Non-Citizens – 2006 For background information, click here