Chile

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Overview

Chile is covered by the OHCHR Regional Office for South America (ROSA). Established in 2009, the office works with State institutions, civil society organizations, regional and international organizations and the UN in order to strengthen their capacities in promoting and protecting all human rights. Read more >

News & Statements

Latest news

25 Oct 2024

Treaty bodies

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women Closes Eighty-Ninth Session in Geneva

15 Oct 2024

Treaty bodies

Experts of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women Praise Chile’s Laws on Violence against Women, Ask about Measures to Prevent Trafficking of Children and Sexual Abuse of Girls

15 Oct 2024

Treaty bodies

Civil Society Organizations Brief the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the Situation of Women in Chile, Canada, Japan, Cuba and Benin

14 Oct 2024

Treaty bodies

Civil Society Organizations Brief the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the Situation of Women in Chile, Canada, Japan, Cuba and Benin

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Latest statements & messages

30 Apr 2024

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Türk meets with authorities and civil society in Chile

23 Jun 2023

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Chile: High Commissioner addresses regional meeting on transitional justice

06 Jun 2017

Multiple Mechanisms

Denial of access and lack of cooperation with UN bodies will not diminish scrutiny of a State's human rights record

29 Mar 2017

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Video Message for the visit of President Michelle Bachelet of Chile
to the Human Rights Council

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Featured Stories

Roberto Garretón receiving the Rectoral Medal from the University of Chile, Santiago, 2019. Robertogarreton.cl
25 January 2022 Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Roberto Garretón Merino: A life in service of human rights

UN Human Rights Chief, Michelle Bachelet, colleagues and friends pay tribute to Roberto Garretón Merino, Chilean lawyer and long-time defender of human rights, following his passing.
Activist Catalina Salazar speaks at Hague Talks
29 October 2021 Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Transforming the lives of marginalized youth with hip-hop

In Santiago, Chile, human rights defender Catalina Salazar teaches hip-hop to students and prisoners to learn self-esteem and encourages youth to use the Arts as a peace-building tool.
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UN and OHCHR Reports

UN Secretary-General and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Report of the Mission to Chile from 30 October to 22 November 2019

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Universal Periodic Review

Core documents for the current and previous cycles

The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a unique process which involves a review of the human rights records of all UN Member States. The UPR is a State-driven process, under the auspices of the Human Rights Council, which provides the opportunity for each State to declare what actions they have taken to improve the human rights situations in their countries and to fulfil their human rights obligations.

Special Procedures

Reports

A/HRC/55/43/Add.1: Visit to Chile Report of the Special Rapporteur on the issue of human rights obligations relating to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment

A/HRC/37/53/Add.1: Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context, on her mission to Chile - Note by the Secretariat

A/HRC/36/39/Add.3: Report of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances - Addendum - Follow-up report to the recommendations made by the Working Group - Missions to Chile and Spain

A/HRC/35/24/Add.1: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education on his mission to Chile

A/HRC/29/40/Add.1: Report of the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice - Addendum - Mission to Chile

E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.2: Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Manfred Nowak - Follow-up to the recommendations made by the Special Rapporteur: Visits to Azerbaijan, Brazil, Cameroon, Chile, Mexico, Romania, the Russian Federation, Spain, Turkey, Uzbekistan and Venezuela

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Special Procedures country visits

Treaty Bodies

Reports

Concluding observations on the second periodic report of Chile

Committee on Enforced Disappearances - Concluding observations on the report submitted by Chile under article 29 (1) of the Convention

Concluding observations on the sixth periodic report of Chile

Concluding observations on the seventh periodic report of Chile

Concluding observations

Concluding observations

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Status & Reporting

Status of Ratifications Reporting Status Standing invitation to Special Procedures Voluntary Pledges and Commitments

External Resources

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Inter-American Court of Human Rights Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions

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Contact Information

Headquarters

Field Operations and Technical Cooperation Division (FOTCD)
Contact is in Geneva, Switzerland.

Americas Section
Tel. + 41 22 917 92 48


Field

OHCHR Regional Office for South America (ROSA)
Av. Dag Hammerskjöld 3269,
Vitacura Santiago de Chile, Chile
Email: ohchr-santiago@ohchr.org
Tel. +56 222 102970
Website

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