Chad

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Overview

The Human Rights Advisor Unit was established in 2011 within the UN Country Team in Chad. In September 2016, the Government Chad and OHCHR agreed to establish a Country Office in Chad. The Chad Country Office, which is functional since 2018, advises and assists the Chadian Government in the development and implementation of human rights and gender policies, strategies, programs and measures to promote and protect human rights.

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News & Statements

Latest news

25 Jan 2024

Universal Periodic Review

Chad’s human rights record to be examined by Universal Periodic Review

21 Sep 2023

Treaty bodies

UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to review Chad, Palestine, Brazil, France, Qatar and Armenia

24 Jul 2023

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Official visit to Chad by UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk cancelled

21 Jul 2023

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk to conduct official visit to Chad

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Latest statements & messages

07 Mar 2022

Multiple Mechanisms

Global Update: Bachelet urges inclusion to combat "sharply escalating misery and fear"

09 Sep 2019

Special Procedures

Interactive Dialogue, 42nd session Human Rights Council

25 Apr 2018

Special Procedures

Debriefing statement on its mission to Chad, 16 – 23 April 2018 by Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the right of peoples to self-determination

01 Apr 2015

Multiple Mechanisms

Opening Statement by Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, at the 23rd Special Session of the Human Rights Council

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Featured Stories

Rakhine University Students hold placards during a protest against the internet shutdown in Sittwe, Rakhine State, Western Myanmar, 2020. Ⓒ EPA-EFE/NYUNT WIN
19 August 2022 Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Activists: Internet shutdowns violate human rights

A recent report of the UN Human Rights Office warns Government-imposed internet shutdowns cause profound damage to the daily lives of millions of people, and undermine a range of human rights, first and foremost the right to freedom of expression.
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09 October 2020 Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Civil society organizations pave the road to end capital punishment in Chad

Civil society organizations in Chad have been at the forefront of the advocacy for the abolition of the death penalty. Salomon Nodjitoloum, member of a coalition of NGOs who actively campaigned in favour of abolition, recalls the path that led to ending the death penalty.
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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/42/42/Add.1: Visit to Chad - Report of the Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination

A/HRC/38/46/Add.2: Report of the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice on its mission to Chad

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Special Procedures country visits

Treaty Bodies

Reports

E/C.12/TCD/CO/4: Concluding observations on the fourth periodic report of Chad

CEDAW/C/TCD/CO/1-4: Concluding observations

E/C.12/TCD/CO/3: Concluding observations

CERD/C/TCD/CO/15: Concluding observations

CCPR/C/TCD/CO/1: Concluding observations

CAT/C/TCD/CO/1: Concluding observations

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Status & Reporting

Status of Ratifications Reporting Status Standing invitation to Special Procedures Commission on Human Rights Resolutions, Decisions and Chairperson's Statements

External Resources

African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights African Court of Justice African Union Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions

Note: OHCHR is not responsible for the content of external links.

Contact Information

Headquarters

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

Africa Branch
Tel. +41 22 917 9220

Field

United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad
c/o UNDP
Avenue du Colonel d’Ornano,
B.P. 906
N'Djamena, Chad

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