References on UNDROP in the work of the United Nations Human Rights mechanisms

Find here all the references on UNDROP by all the Human Rights mechanisms, with periodic update. For an explanation of the use of the UNDROP by the UN Human Rights mechanisms, read our article here.

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• Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food – 2024 – Fisheries and the right to food in the context of climate change

Universal Periodic Review

• UPR Recommendations on UNDROP (database)

Human Rights Council’s Special Procedures

Joint Statements:

• Special Procedures – 2022 – Statement on the Need for Action on UNDROP
• Special Procedures and Treaty Bodies – 2019 – Statement on the Need to Take Steps to Implement UNDROP

Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food

• Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food – 2024 – Fisheries and the right to food in the context of climate change
• Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food – 2023 – Report on Violence
• Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food – 2022 – Report on the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food – 2022 – Report on Seeds
• Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food – 2021 – Vision of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food
• Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food – 2020 – Critical perspective on food systems, food crises and the future of the right to food
• Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food – 2020 – The right to food in the context of international trade law and policy

Special Rapporteur on the Right to Water and Sanitation

• Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Water and Sanitation – 2022 – Report on Impoverished Rural Communities

Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment

• Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment – 2021 – Report on Healthy and Sustainable Food: Reducing the Environmental Impacts of Food Systems on Human Rights
• Special Rapporteur on the issue of human rights obligations relating to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment – 2020 – Human Right depend on a healthy biosphere

Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights

• Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt – 2020 – Private debt and human rights

Working Group on discrimination against women and girls

• Working Group on discrimination against women and girls – 2020 – Women’s human rights in the changing world of work

Special Rapporteur on adequate housing

• Special Rapporteur on adequate housing – 2019 – Guidelines for the Implementation of the Right to Adequate Housing

Treaty Bodies

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

• Committee on ESCR – 2022 – General Comment on Land and ESCR
• Committee on ESCR – 2020- General Comment on Science and ESCR
• Committee on ESCR – 2020 – Concluding Observations to Guinea
• Committee on ESCR – 2019 – Concluding Observations to Cameroon

Human Rights Committee

• Human Rights Committee – 2019 – Portillo Caceres and Others v. Paraguay

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

• CEDAW Committee – 2019 – Concluding Observations to Colombia
• CEDAW Committee – 2016 – General Recommendation on the Rights of Rural Women