Panama

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Overview

Panama is covered by the OHCHR Regional Office for Central America and Dominican Republic (RO-CADR). Established in 2007, the office promotes and protects human rights by monitoring human rights situations and providing technical assistance and advisory services to the State, national institutions, and civil society.  Read more >

News & Statements

Latest news

30 May 2024

Treaty bodies

UN Child Rights Committee publishes findings on Bhutan, Egypt, Estonia, Georgia, Guatemala, Mali, Namibia, Paraguay and Panama

13 May 2024

Treaty bodies

Experts of the Committee on the Rights of the Child Praise Panama’s Child Protection Laws, Ask about Measures to Prevent Online Grooming of Children and Protect Migrant Children in the Darien Gap

03 May 2024

Treaty bodies

UN Child Rights Committee to review Namibia, Guatemala, Georgia, Mali, Panama, Egypt, Bhutan, Estonia and Paraguay

08 Sep 2023

Special Procedures

Panama: Fast-track implementation of the law on albinism, urges UN expert

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Latest statements & messages

10 May 2017

Special Procedures

End of Mission Statement - Visit of the Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights to Panama

18 Jan 2013

Special Procedures

Press Statement by the United Nations’ Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, on the conclusion of its official visit to Panama, 14- 18 January 2013

02 Sep 2001

WCAR Plenary
1 September 2001

Statement by H.E. H.E. Mr. Dominador Kayser Bazan
Second Vice-President of the Republic of Panama

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Featured Stories

UN Human Rights worker speaks with people arriving to the intake centre on the Panama side of the Darien Gap. © Carlos Rodriguez/ROCA
05 September 2023 Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Darien Gap: a risky path in search of a safer life

The Darien Gap, in the jungles on the border of Panama and Colombia, has become the latest migration path for those fleeing from violence, insecurity, and lack of opportunity elsewhere in the world. Since August, more than 330,000 people have crossed this expanse.
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13 October 2015

A name, a nationality, an identity: Registering Indigenous Peoples in Panama

Hundreds of members of the Mama Tata religious group of the Ngäbe-Bugle indigenous people in Panama have been recently officially registered by members of the country’s Electoral Tribunal. The registration was assisted by the UN Human Rights Office for Central America as part of a project to improve birth registration among indigenous populations funded by the Universal Periodic Review Voluntary Fund for Financial and Technical Assistance.
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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/55/45/Add.1: Visit to Panama - Report of the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism, Muluka-Anne Miti-Drummond

A/HRC/37/54/Add.2: Report of the Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights, on his mission to Panama - Note by the Secretariat

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Special Procedures country visits

Treaty Bodies

Reports

E/C.12/PAN/CO/3: Concluding observations on the third periodic report of Panama

CCPR/C/PAN/CO/4: Concluding observations on the fourth periodic report of Panama

CEDAW/C/PAN/CO/8: Concluding observations on the eighth periodic report of Panama

CED/C/PAN/CO/1: Concluding observations

Concluding observations on the report submitted by Panama under article 8 (1) of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict

CRC/C/PAN/CO/5-6: 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 Central America (ROCA)
Ciudad del Saber, Casa 136 A-B
Clayton, Panama City, Panama
Tel. +507 302 4706
Email: pregionaloffice@ohchr.org
Website

Photo credit: EPA/Alejandro Bolívar

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