El Relator Especial puede intervenir directamente ante los gobiernos en casos de presuntas violaciones de derechos humanos que guarden relación con la extrema pobreza.

En concreto, lo hace a través de cartas que pueden adoptar la forma de un llamamiento urgente o una comunicación ordinaria. Estas intervenciones pueden estar relacionadas con una violación de derechos humanos que ya haya ocurrido, que siga ocurriendo o que presente un alto riesgo de ocurrir en el futuro. El proceso consiste en enviar una carta al Estado en cuestión en la que se describan los hechos que conforman la denuncia, las normas y la reglamentaciones internacionales de derechos humanos aplicables, junto a dudas, preguntas y la solicitud de aplicar medidas complementarias. En algunos casos, se pueden enviar comunicados también a organizaciones intergubernamentales, o bien a agentes no estatales como empresas privadas.

Las comunicaciones pueden versar sobre casos individuales, pautas y tendencias generales de violación de los derechos humanos, casos que afecten a un grupo o una comunidad en particular o el contenido de proyectos legislativos, normativas existentes, políticas o prácticas que no sean del todo compatibles con las normas internacionales de derechos humanos.

Más información sobre las comunicaciones y cómo enviar material informativo al Relator Especial aquí.

La página actual incluye enlaces a comunicados individuales enviados por el Relator Especial sobre la extrema pobreza y los derechos humanos. Se puede consultar una lista completa de los comunicados conjuntos con otros Relatores Especiales aquí.

Argentina

Bonds and Debt

Australia

Termination of Accounts of Somali Money Transfer

Social Services Legislation

Bahrain

Discrimination, Religion, Expression, and Culture

Bangladesh

Water and Arsenic

Brazil

Constitutional Amendment

Police Intervention in Cracolandia

Canada

Homeless Crisis

China

Detention of Human Rights Lawyer

Detention and Freedom of Expression

Disappearance of Human Rights Lawyer

Disappearance of Human Rights Defender

Freedom of Expression and Harassment

Colombia

Land, Indigenous Peoples, Water and Sanitation

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

Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe

Emergency Housing and Migrants

Egypt

Abusive Labour Practices

Greece

Immigration, Housing, Sanitation, and Health

Guatemala

Basic Income and the Right to Food

Right to Food

Haiti

Victims of 2010 cholera epidemic denied healthcare

India

Judicial Harassment of and Death Threats Received by Rajat Kalsa

Abusive Labour Practices

Humanitarian COVID-19 crisis: 100 million workers returning home

Indonesia

Abusive Labour Practices

Lombok : human rights abuses in Mandalika mega tourism project

Ireland

Public Services Card

Lao PDR

Disappearance

Lebanon

Economic Crisis

Mauritania

Detention of Human Rights Defenders

Detention and Torture

Mohammed bin Ibrahim bin Abdullah Owaideh

Abusive Labour Practices

Moldova

Roma Community Action Plan

Morocco

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

Myanmar

Right to Food

Netherlands

Emergency Housing and Migrants

Emergency Assistance to Homeless Migrants

Demolition of 535 social rental homes in Rotterdam

Nigeria

Water Privatization

NML Capital

Bonds and Debt

Pakistan

Abusive Labour Practices

Philippines

Abusive Labour Practices

Saudi Arabia

Detention of Human Rights Defender

Demolition of Historic Neighborhood

Abusive Labour Practices

Serbia

Immigration and Housing

Somalia

Termination of Accounts of Somali Money Transfer

South Africa

Killing of Human Rights Defender Sibonelo Patrick Mpeku

Spain

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

Migrant workers in Huelva: appalling living and working conditions

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

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

Sudan

Abusive Labour Practices

Thailand

Disappearance

Turkey

Emergency Measures, Coup, and Subsequent Poverty

Detention and Freedom of Speech

State of Emergency

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Termination of Accounts of Somali Money Transfer

Welfare Reform and Work Act

Food insecurity among low-income households

Plan to cut an uplift to Universal Credit

United Nations

Cholera Outbreak in Haiti

United States

Water and Sanitation in Detroit

Bonds and Debts

Racism and Water and Sanitation in Baltimore

Termination of Accounts of Somali Money Transfer

Water Crisis in Flint

Venezuela

Housing, Food, and Health

Economic crisis, inequality, poverty

Yemen

Abusive Labour Practices

Zimbabwe

Austerity and Economic Reforms