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• I. Right to self-determination
• II. Framework for the protection and promotion of human rights
• III. Equality and non-discrimination
• IV. Right to life; right to physical and moral integrity; prohibition of slavery; right to liberty and security
• V. Administration of justice & fair trial
• VI. Right to be recognized as a person before the law; rights related to name, identity, nationality; political rights
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• 1 - Right of self-determination
• 2 - Acceptance of international norms
• 2.1 - Status of international instruments
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• 3 - Cooperation with human rights mechanisms and UN institutions
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• 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
• 6 - Right to an effective remedy, impunity
• 7 - Non-discrimination
• 8 - Discrimination against women (Redirects to 34.1)
• 9 - Racial discrimination
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• 11 - Right to life
• 11.1 - Genocide
• 11.2 - Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
• 11.3 - Death penalty
• 11.4 - Right to life-other aspects
• 12 - Right to physical and moral integrity
• 12.1 - Prohibition of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
• 12.2 - Conditions of detention
• 13 - Prohibition of slavery, trafficking
• 14 - Right to liberty and security
• 14.1 - Enforced disappearances
• 14.2 - Arbitrary arrest and detention
• 14.3 - Liberty & security of person
• 15 - Administration of justice & fair trial
• 16 - Right to be recognized as a person before the law; legal capacity
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• 18 - Right to participation in public affairs and right to vote
• 19 - Right to freedom of movement
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• 24 - Right to private life, privacy
• 25 - Marriage and family
• 26 - Economic, social & cultural rights - general implementation issues
• 27 - Rights related to work
• 27.1 - Right to work
• 27.2 - Right to just and favourable conditions of work
• 27.3 - Trade union rights
• 28 - Right to social security
• 29 - Right to an adequate standard of living
• 29.1 - Right to an adequate standard of living - general
• 29.2 - Right to adequate food
• 29.3 - Right to adequate housing
• 30 - Right to health
• 31 - Right to education
• 32 - Rights to protection of property; financial credit
• 33 - Cultural rights
• 34 - Women
• 34.1 - Elimination of discrimination against women
• 34.2 - Gender-based violence against women; protection
• 35 - Children
• 35.1 - Children: definition; general principles; protection
• 35.2 - Children: family environment and alternative care
• 35.3 - Children: protection against exploitation
• 35.4 - Juvenile justice
• 35.5 - Children in armed conflict
• 36 - Persons with disabilities
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• 38 - Indigenous peoples
• 39 - Migrants
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• 46 - Human Rights & drinking water and sanitation
• 47 - Human rights & toxic wastes
• 48 - Human rights & counter-terrorism
• 49 - Human rights & use of mercenaries
• 50 - Human rights & International humanitarian law
• 51 - Comments by Government
• 52 - Voluntary Pledges & Commitments
• 53 - Follow-up treaty bodies
• 54 - Follow-up special procedures
• 55 - Follow-up UPR

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• Ad hoc Missions (Ad hoc Missions)
• Committee against Torture (CAT)
• Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)
• 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 the Child (CRC)
• Human Rights Committee (HRC)
• Independent Expert appointed by the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights in Haiti (IE Haiti)
• Independent Expert appointed by the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights in Somalia (IE Somalia)
• Independent expert on human rights obligations related to access to safe drinking water and sanitation (IE water & sanitation)
• Independent Expert on minorities issues (IE Minorities)
• Independent expert on the effects of economic reform policies and foreign debt on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights (IE Eco. Reform & Foreign Debt)
• Independent expert on the effects of structural adjustment policies and foreign debt on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights (IE Struct. Adjustment & Foreign Debt)
• Independent expert on the question of human rights and extreme poverty (IE Extreme Poverty)
• Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Burundi (IE Burundi)
• Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Liberia (IE Liberia)
• Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (IE DRC)
• Joint Report (Joint Report)
• No source Available (No Source)
• Personal Representative of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Cuba (PRHCHR Cuba)
• Representative of the Secretary-General on the human rights of internally displaced persons (RSG IDPs)
• Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living (SR Housing)
• Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance (SR Racism)
• Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences (SR Slavery)
• Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (SR Summary Executions)
• Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief (SR Freedom of Religion)
• Special Rapporteur on the adverse effects of the illicit movement and dumping of toxic and dangerous products and wastes on the enjoyment of human rights (SR Toxic Wastes)
• Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants (SR Migrants)
• Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers (SR Independence of Judges)
• Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism (SR Terrorism)
• Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression (SR Freedom of Expression)
• Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health (SR Health)
• Special Rapporteur on the right to education (SR Education)
• Special Rapporteur on the right to food (SR Food)
• Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography (SR Sale of Children)
• Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people (SR Indigenous)
• Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders (SR HR Defenders)
• Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus (SR Belarus)
• Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar (SR Myanmar)
• Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (SR Korea)
• Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967 (SR OPT)
• Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Sudan (SR Sudan)
• Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment (SR Torture)
• Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children (SR Trafficking)
• Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences (SR Violence against Women)
• Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict (SRSG Children & Armed Conflict)
• Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights defenders (SRSG HR Defenders)
• Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights in Cambodia (SRSG Cambodia)
• Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT)
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR)
• Working Group of Experts on People of African descent (WG People of African Descent)
• Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WG Arbitrary Detention)
• Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WG Disappearances)
• Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of impending the exercice of the right of peoples to self-determination (WG Mercenaries)

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• Tuvalu
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