Human Rights monitoring mechanisms

Explore how different international human rights monitoring mechanisms have addressed Goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda in their recommendations.

Universal Periodic Review

The database contains recommendations from UPR cycles 1-3. You can browse all recommendations from the UPR in the Explorer.

Cycle 1
Cycle 2
Cycle 3

Treaty bodies

Recommendations from a diverse range of treaty bodies. Click on each treaty, to view more details. You can view all recommendations from treaty bodies in the Explorer.

Committee against Torture (CAT)
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)
Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED)
Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW)
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
Human Rights Committee (CCPR)
Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT)

Special Procedures

Recommendations for special procedures are divided in thematic and country specific procedures. You can view all recommendations from procedures in the Explorer.

Thematic

Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity
Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context
Special Rapporteur on minority issues
Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief
Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes
Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism
Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence
Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights
Special Rapporteur on the right to development
Special Rapporteur on the right to food
Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material
Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy
Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children
Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises
Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice
Special Rapporteur on the issue of human rights obligations relating to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment
Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination
Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers
Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order
Special Rapporteur on the right to education
Special Rapporteur on the elimination of discrimination against persons affected by leprosy and their family members
Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism
Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights
Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons
Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights
Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity