Netherlands

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Overview

Netherlands is covered by the OHCHR Regional Office for Europe (ROE), whose primary function is to advance human rights in the European Union (EU) through technical assistance, advocacy, and reporting on human rights, based on the recommendations of UN human rights mechanisms. The office works to address human rights gaps in EU legislation, budgeting and policy-making, seizing the impetus created by the Sustainable Development Agenda.

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News & Statements

Latest news

06 Sep 2024

Treaty bodies

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Concludes Thirty-First Session after Adopting Concluding Observations on Reports of Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Denmark, Ghana, Mauritius, Netherlands and Ukraine

09 Aug 2024

Treaty bodies

UN disability rights committee to review Burkina Faso, Benin, Netherlands, Ghana, Belarus, Belgium, Denmark, Mauritius, and Ukraine

21 Dec 2023

Special Procedures

The Netherlands should urgently assert the right to adequate housing for all: UN expert

08 Dec 2023

Special Procedures

UN expert on right to housing to visit the Netherlands

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Latest statements & messages

07 Oct 2019

Special Procedures

End of Mission Statement of the Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance at the Conclusion of Her Mission to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, The Hague (7 October 2019)

14 Nov 2018

Special Procedures

Preliminary findings and recommendations of the United Nations Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity, Mr. Obiora C. Okafor, at the end of his visit to the Netherlands

09 Jul 2014

Special Procedures

Netherlands: UN experts urge redoubled efforts to end discrimination against people of African descent

04 Jul 2014

Special Procedures

Statement by the United Nations’ Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, on the conclusion of its official visit to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, 26 June - 4 July 2014.

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Universal Periodic Review

Core documents for the current and previous cycles and letter by the High Commissioner to the Foreign Minister

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/55/53/Add.1: Visit to The Netherlands - 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, Balakrishnan Rajagopal

A/HRC/44/57/Add.2: Visit to the Netherlands - Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance

A/HRC/43/48/Add.1: Visit to the Netherlands - Report of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief

A/HRC/41/44/Add.2: Visit to the Netherlands - Report of the Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity

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Special Procedures country visits

Treaty Bodies

Reports

CRPD/C/NLD/CO/1: Concluding observations on the initial report of the Netherlands

CRC/C/NLD/CO/5-6: Concluding observations on the combined fifth and sixth periodic reports of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

CERD/C/NLD/CO/22-24: Concluding observations on the combined twenty-second to twenty-fourth periodic reports of the Kingdom of the Netherland

CCPR/C/NLD/CO/5: Human Rights Committee: Concluding observations on the fifth periodic report of the Netherlands

CAT/C/NLD/CO/7: Concluding observations on the seventh periodic report of the Netherlands

E/C.12/NLD/CO/6: Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Concluding observations on the sixth periodic report of the Netherlands

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Status & Reporting

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

External Resources

Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions Council of Europe

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Contact Information

Headquarters

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

Europe and Central Asia Section
Telephone: +41 22 917 9220
Email: ohchr-InfoDesk@un.org

 

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