Exposing human rights abuses

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The Special Rapporteur can intervene directly with governments on alleged human rights violations that relate to extreme poverty and human rights. He does this by means of letters, which can take the form of either an urgent appeal or an ordinary communication. Such an intervention can relate to a human rights violation that has already occurred, is ongoing, or which has a high risk of occurring. The process involves sending a letter to the concerned State identifying the facts of the allegation, applicable international human rights norms and standards, concerns and questions, and a request for follow-up action. In some cases, communications are also sent to inter-governmental organisations or non-State actors.

Communications may deal with individual cases, general patterns and trends of human rights violations, cases affecting a particular group or community, or the content of draft or existing legislation, policy or practice considered not to be fully compatible with international human rights standards. More information on communications, including how to submit information to the Special Rapporteur, is available here.

The current page contains links to individual communications issued by the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. A full list of joint communications issued with other Special Rapporteurs is available here.

Argentina

Bonds and Debt

• Original Communication ( 20 August 2014)
• First Country Reply (20 October 2014)

Australia

Termination of Accounts of Somali Money Transfer

• Original Communication (12 January 2016)
• First Country Reply (17 March 2016)

Social Services Legislation

• Original Communication (17 October 2017)
• Country Reply (15 January 2018)
• Follow-Up Communication (30 January 2018)

Bahrain

Discrimination, Religion, Expression, and Culture

• Original Communication (30 October 2015)
• First Country Reply (25 December 2015)
• Second Country Reply (1 February 2016)

Bangladesh

Water and Arsenic

• Original Communication (21 June 2016)

Brazil

Constitutional Amendment

• Original Communication (8 December 2016)
• First Country Reply (12 December 2016)
• Second Country Reply (21 December 2016)
• Third Country Reply (23 December 2016)
• Fourth Country Reply (23 January 2017)
• Response to 8 December Letter (23 March 2017)

Police Intervention in Cracolandia

• Second Communication (28 August 2017)
• First Country Reply (6 March 2018)

Canada

Homeless Crisis

• Original Communication (16 May 2017)

China

Detention of Human Rights Lawyer

• Original Communication (20 May 2019)
• First Country Reply (27 June 2019)

Detention and Freedom of Expression

• Original Communication (26 October 2016)
• First Country Reply (9 December 2016)

Disappearance of Human Rights Lawyer

• Original Communication (2 December 2016)
• First Country Reply (20 January 2017)

Disappearance of Human Rights Defender

• Original Communication (28 December 2016)

Freedom of Expression and Harassment

• Original Communication (28 April 2017)
• First Country Reply (29 May 2017)

Colombia

Land, Indigenous Peoples, Water and Sanitation

• Original Communication (22 December 2016)
• First Country Reply (27 February 2017)

Afro-Colombian Community, Racism, Executions, Violence, and Poverty

• Original Communication (11 March 2016)
• First Country Reply (18 January 2017)

Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe

Emergency Housing and Migrants

• Original Communication (12 February 2015)

Egypt

Abusive Labour Practices

• Original Communication (31 July 2017)

Greece

Immigration, Housing, Sanitation, and Health

• Original Communication (27 January 2017)
• First Country Reply (27 February 2017)

Guatemala

Basic Income and the Right to Food

• Original Communication (12 February 2015)
• First Country Reply (13 March 2015)
• First Country Reply Annex (13 March 2015)
• First Country Reply Report v2 (13 March 2015)
• First Country Reply Report v3 (13 March 2015)

Right to Food

• Original Communication (19 February 2016)
• First Country Reply (10 May 2016)

 

Haiti

Victims of 2010 cholera epidemic denied healthcare

• Original communication (28 April 2020)

India

Judicial Harassment of and Death Threats Received by Rajat Kalsa

• Original Communication (10 November 2017)

Abusive Labour Practices

• Original Communication (31 July 2017)

Humanitarian COVID-19 crisis: 100 million workers returning home

• Original communication (28 May 2020)
• Country reply (26 June 2020)

Indonesia

Abusive Labour Practices

• Original Communication (31 July 2017)
• First Country Reply (2 August 2017)
• Second Country Reply (13 October 2017)

Ireland

Public Services Card

• Original Communication (14 April 2020)

Lao PDR

Disappearance

• Original Communication (25 September 2019)
• First Country Reply (17 January 2020)

Lebanon

Economic Crisis

• Original Communication (20 November 2019)
• First Country Reply (January 20, 2020)

Mauritania

Detention of Human Rights Defenders

• Original Communication (11 October 2016)
• First Country Reply (19 October 2016)

Detention and Torture

• Original Communication (2 August 2016)

Mohammed bin Ibrahim bin Abdullah Owaideh

Abusive Labour Practices

• Original Communication (14 July 2017)

Moldova

Roma Community Action Plan

• Original Communication-Follow-up on 2013 Country Visit (28 May 2015)
• First Country Reply (3 August 2015)

Morocco

Human rights violations of seasonal migrant workers, especially women, in Huelva

• Original Communication (22 June 2020)

Myanmar

Right to Food

• Original Communication (23 August 2017)
• First Country Reply (11 January 2018)

Netherlands

Emergency Housing and Migrants

• Original Communication (12 December 2014)
• First Country Reply (4 February 2015)
• Second Country Reply (9 July 2015)

Emergency Assistance to Homeless Migrants

• Response to 9 July Reply (25 February 2016)
• First Country Reply (4 November 2016)

Nigeria

Water Privatization

• Original Communication (15 January 2020)

NML Capital

Bonds and Debt

• Original Communication (20 August 2014)

Pakistan

Abusive Labour Practices

• Original Communication (31 July 2017)

Philippines

Abusive Labour Practices

• Original Communication (24 August 2017)
• First Country Reply (5 January 2018)

Saudi Arabia

Detention of Human Rights Defender

• Original Communication (20 February 2017)
• First Country Reply (20 April 2017)

Demolition of Historic Neighborhood

• Original Communication (27 March 2017)
• First Country Reply (24 May 2017)

Abusive Labour Practices

• Original Communication (11 July 2017)
• First Country Reply (18 August 2017)
• Second Country Reply (11 September 2017)

Serbia

Immigration and Housing

• Original Communication (8 February 2017)
• First Country Reply (11 August 2017)

Somalia

Termination of Accounts of Somali Money Transfer

• Original Communication (12 January 2016)

South Africa

Killing of Human Rights Defender Sibonelo Patrick Mpeku

• Original Communication (3 January 2018)

Spain

Roma Community and Lack of Access to Sanitation, Health, and Education

• Original Communication (9 May 2016)
• First Country Reply (19 July 2016)

Migrant workers in Huelva: appalling living and working conditions

• Original Communication (30 April 2020)
• Country Reply (20 August 2020)
• Communication to the company Driscoll’s, Inc. (30 April 2020)
• Response from the  company Driscoll’s (25 June 2020)

Human rights violations of seasonal migrant workers, especially women, in Huelva

• Original Communication (22 June 2020)
• First Country Reply (26 June 2020)
• Second Country Reply (20 August 2020)
• Communication to the company Plus Berries y Agrícola El Bosque SL (23 June 2020)

Power cut in informal settlement «Cañada Real Galiana» :  1812 children at risk in the winter

• Original communication (18 December 2020)

Sudan

Abusive Labour Practices

• Original Communication (31 July 2017)
• First Country Reply (6 November 2017)

Thailand

Disappearance

• Original Communication (25 September 2019)

Turkey

Emergency Measures, Coup, and Subsequent Poverty

• Original Communication (11 April 2017)
• First Country Reply (6 June 2017)
• Second Country Reply Part I (27 July 2017)
• Second Country Reply Part II (27 July 2017)
• Second Country Reply Part III (27 July 2017)

Detention and Freedom of Speech

• Original Communication (1 June 2017)
• First Country Reply (21 July 2017)

State of Emergency

• Response to 11 April 2017 Reply (20 February 2018)
• First Country Reply (13 April 2018)
• Second Country Reply (30 April 2018)

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Termination of Accounts of Somali Money Transfer

• Original Communication (12 January 2016)
• First Country Reply (24 March 2016)

Welfare Reform and Work Act

• Original Communication (8 April 2016)
• First Country Reply (14 July 2016)

Food insecurity among low-income households

• Original communication (5 August 2020)

United Nations

Cholera Outbreak in Haiti

• Response to 25 November 2014 Reply (23 October 2015)
• UN Reply to 23 October 2015 Response (25 February 2016)

• Original communication (28 April 2020)
• UN Reply (26 June 2020)

United States

Water and Sanitation in Detroit

• Original Communication (24 June 2014)
• First Country Reply (17 October 2014)

Bonds and Debts

• Original Communication (20 August 2014)
• First Country Reply (14 October 2014)

Racism and Water and Sanitation in Baltimore

• Original Communication (15 May 2015)
• First Country Reply (16 July 2015)

Termination of Accounts of Somali Money Transfer

• Original Communication (12 January 2016)
• First Country Reply (13 May 2016)

Water Crisis in Flint

• Original Communication (5 April 2016)

Venezuela

Housing, Food, and Health

• Original Communication (11 December 2017)
• First Country Reply (11 January 2018)

Economic crisis, inequality, poverty

• Original communication (29 April 2020)

Yemen

Abusive Labour Practices

• Original Communication (31 July 2017)

Zimbabwe

Austerity and Economic Reforms

• Joint Statement (1 April 2019)