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.
Contenidos
Argentina
Bonds and Debt
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (20 August 2014)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (20 October 2014)
Australia
Termination of Accounts of Somali Money Transfer
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (12 January 2016)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (17 March 2016)
Social Services Legislation
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (17 October 2017)
- Philip Alston: Country Reply (15 January 2018)
- Philip Alston: Follow-Up Communication (30 January 2018)
Bahrain
Discrimination, Religion, Expression, and Culture
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (30 October 2015)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (25 December 2015)
- Philip Alston: Second Country Reply (1 February 2016)
Bangladesh
Water and Arsenic
Brazil
Constitutional Amendment
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (8 December 2016)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (12 December 2016)
- Philip Alston: Second Country Reply (21 December 2016)
- Philip Alston: Third Country Reply (23 December 2016)
- Philip Alston: Fourth Country Reply (23 January 2017)
- Philip Alston: Response to 8 December Letter (23 March 2017)
Police Intervention in Cracolandia
- Philip Alston: Second Communication (28 August 2017)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (6 March 2018)
Canada
Homeless Crisis
China
Detention of Human Rights Lawyer
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (20 May 2019)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (27 June 2019)
Detention and Freedom of Expression
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (26 October 2016)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (9 December 2016)
Disappearance of Human Rights Lawyer
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (2 December 2016)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (20 January 2017)
Disappearance of Human Rights Defender
Freedom of Expression and Harassment
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (28 April 2017)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (29 May 2017)
Colombia
Land, Indigenous Peoples, Water and Sanitation
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (22 December 2016)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (27 February 2017)
Afro-Colombian Community, Racism, Executions, Violence, and Poverty
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (11 March 2016)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (18 January 2017)
Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe
Emergency Housing and Migrants
Egypt
Abusive Labour Practices
Greece
Immigration, Housing, Sanitation, and Health
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (27 January 2017)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (27 February 2017)
Guatemala
Basic Income and the Right to Food
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (12 February 2015)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (13 March 2015)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply Annex (13 March 2015)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply Report v2 (13 March 2015)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply Report v3 (13 March 2015)
Right to Food
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (19 February 2016)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (10 May 2016)
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
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (31 July 2017)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (2 August 2017)
- Philip Alston: 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
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (25 September 2019)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (17 January 2020)
Lebanon
Economic Crisis
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (20 November 2019)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (January 20, 2020)
Mauritania
Detention of Human Rights Defenders
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (11 October 2016)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (19 October 2016)
Detention and Torture
Mohammed bin Ibrahim bin Abdullah Owaideh
Abusive Labour Practices
Moldova
Roma Community Action Plan
- Philip Alston: Original Communication-Follow-up on 2013 Country Visit (28 May 2015)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (3 August 2015)
Morocco
Human rights violations of seasonal migrant workers, especially women, in Huelva
Myanmar
Right to Food
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (23 August 2017)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (11 January 2018)
Netherlands
Emergency Housing and Migrants
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (12 December 2014)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (4 February 2015)
- Philip Alston: Second Country Reply (9 July 2015)
Emergency Assistance to Homeless Migrants
- Philip Alston: Response to 9 July Reply (25 February 2016)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (4 November 2016)
Demolition of 535 social rental homes in Rotterdam
Nigeria
Water Privatization
NML Capital
Bonds and Debt
Pakistan
Abusive Labour Practices
Philippines
Abusive Labour Practices
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (24 August 2017)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (5 January 2018)
Saudi Arabia
Detention of Human Rights Defender
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (20 February 2017)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (20 April 2017)
Demolition of Historic Neighborhood
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (27 March 2017)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (24 May 2017)
Abusive Labour Practices
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (11 July 2017)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (18 August 2017)
- Philip Alston: Second Country Reply (11 September 2017)
Serbia
Immigration and Housing
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (8 February 2017)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (11 August 2017)
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
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (9 May 2016)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (19 July 2016)
Migrant workers in Huelva: appalling living and working conditions
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (30 April 2020)
- Country Reply (20 August 2020)
- Philip Alston: 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
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (31 July 2017)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (6 November 2017)
Thailand
Disappearance
Turkey
Emergency Measures, Coup, and Subsequent Poverty
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (11 April 2017)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (6 June 2017)
- Philip Alston: Second Country Reply Part I (27 July 2017)
- Philip Alston: Second Country Reply Part II (27 July 2017)
- Philip Alston: Second Country Reply Part III (27 July 2017)
Detention and Freedom of Speech
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (1 June 2017)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (21 July 2017)
State of Emergency
- Philip Alston: Response to 11 April 2017 Reply (20 February 2018)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (13 April 2018)
- Philip Alston: Second Country Reply (30 April 2018)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Termination of Accounts of Somali Money Transfer
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (12 January 2016)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (24 March 2016)
Welfare Reform and Work Act
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (8 April 2016)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (14 July 2016)
Food insecurity among low-income households
Plan to cut an uplift to Universal Credit
United Nations
Cholera Outbreak in Haiti
- Philip Alston: Response to 25 November 2014 Reply (23 October 2015)
- Philip Alston: UN Reply to 23 October 2015 Response (25 February 2016)
United States
Water and Sanitation in Detroit
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (24 June 2014)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (17 October 2014)
Bonds and Debts
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (20 August 2014)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (14 October 2014)
Racism and Water and Sanitation in Baltimore
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (15 May 2015)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (16 July 2015)
Termination of Accounts of Somali Money Transfer
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (12 January 2016)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (13 May 2016)
Water Crisis in Flint
Venezuela
Housing, Food, and Health
- Philip Alston: Original Communication (11 December 2017)
- Philip Alston: First Country Reply (11 January 2018)