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 organizations or non-State actors, such as private corporations.
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.
Contenidos
Argentina
Bonds and Debt
Australia
Termination of Accounts of Somali Money Transfer
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
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
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
- 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
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
- Original Communication (31 July 2017)
- First Country Reply (2 August 2017)
- Second Country Reply (13 October 2017)
Lombok : human rights abuses in Mandalika mega tourism project
- Original communication to the Government of Indonesia (4 March 2021)
- Reply from the Government of Indonesia (3 May 2021)
- Letter to AIIB (4 March 2021)
- Reply from AIIB (3 May 2021)
- Communication to Vinci (26 March 2021)
- Reply from Vinci (25 May 2021)
- Communication to Accor (26 March 2021)
- Reply from Accor (16 April 2021)
- Communication to Club Med (26 March 2021)
- Reply from Club Med (21 May 2021)
- Communication to Dorna Sports (26 March 2021)
- Communication to Paragon (26 March 2021)
- Communication to France (26 March 2021)
- Communication to Spain (26 March 2021)
- Reply from Spain (27 May 2021)
- Communication to the USA (26 March 2021)
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
- 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
Myanmar
Right to Food
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
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
- Original Communication (11 July 2017)
- First Country Reply (18 August 2017)
- Second Country Reply (11 September 2017)
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
- 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
Sudan
Abusive Labour Practices
Thailand
Disappearance
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
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
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
- Response to 25 November 2014 Reply (23 October 2015)
- UN Reply to 23 October 2015 Response (25 February 2016)