Comoros

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Overview

Comoros is covered by the OHCHR Regional Office for Southern Africa (ROSA). The office provides technical assistance on the promotion and protection of human rights with a focus on protecting civic space, early warning and prevention, tackling gender-based violence and discrimination, integrating human rights in development, strengthening national protection systems and human rights reporting and follow-up to recommendations. Read more >

Comoros also falls under the UN Human Rights Training and Documentation Centre for South-West Asia and the Arab Region established by General Assembly Resolution 60/153 of 2006. The Centre’s main objective is to strengthen the promotion and protection of human rights through technical cooperation, national capacity-building, public information and education, within the region stipulated in the mandate.

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News & Statements

Latest news

30 Apr 2024

Multiple Mechanisms

Human rights record of the Comoros to be examined by Universal Periodic Review

17 Jan 2024

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Comoros: UN Human Rights Chief calls for calm and urges the authorities to protect free assembly, uphold democratic principles

18 Mar 2021

Special Procedures

Comoros: UN experts decry enforced disappearance in defiance of international law

18 Jun 2019

Special Procedures

UN expert on torture suspends Comoros visit after continued obstructions

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Latest statements & messages

16 May 2014

Special Procedures

Discours de fin de mission aux Comores par le Groupe de travail sur l’utilisation de mercenaires

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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

Special Procedures country visits

Treaty Bodies

Reports

CEDAW/C/COM/CO/1-4: Concluding observations on the initial to fourth periodic reports of Comoros

CRC/C/15/Add.141: Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child

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Status & Reporting

Status of Ratifications Reporting Status Standing invitation to Special Procedures

External Resources

African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights African Court of Justice African Union

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Contact Information

Headquarters

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

Africa Branch
Tel. +41 22 917 9220

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