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DEFENDERS
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This joint report (with Society for Supporting
Victims of Domestic Violence) 14-page report is
in two parts of challenges and recommendations.
In the challenges section subjects such as privacy
law, refugees and migrant workers conditions,
human trafficking, women, children, racial
discrimination, the right to education and access
to health, prisons conditions have been reviewed.
In continuation the recommendations of the
ODVV have been added in each of the subjects.
This ODVV report has been referred to 11 times
in the Summary prepared by the Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights in accordance with paragraph 15(c) of
the annex to Human Rights Council resolution
1/5 and paragraph 5 of the annex to Council
resolution 21/16
Recommendation
International instrument & CP rights
Withdraw reservations, denunciations, and
interpretations of the Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights, the International Convention
on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination and the Convention against
Torture, which undermine their compliance.
Ratify ICESCR and its Optional Protocol,
the first Optional Protocol to the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
CEDAW, the Convention on the Rights of the
Child, the Optional Protocol to the Convention
against Torture, the Convention on the Rights
of Persons with Disabilities, the Convention
for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced
Disappearance.
The Organization for Defending Victims of Violence (ODVV)
Society for Supporting Victims of Domestic Violence (SVDV)
The United States of America