• Overview of the UN HR Protection System (chart)

PART I. INDIA AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL (HRC)

• India’s Pledges at the UN General Assembly and comparative analysis

• Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2008
  • India’s first UPR, 2008
    • India’s National Report
    • Summary by the OHCHR
    • Compilation by the OHCHR
    • Report of the Working Group on the UPR
  • Information and Guidelines
    • Review of the work and functioning of the HRC
    • Guidelines for stakeholders on the UPR
• Special Procedures
  • Introduction to the Special Procedures
  • Press release and reports of Special Rapporteurs’ (SR) missions to India:
    • Press release on human rights defenders (2011)
    • SR report on toxic waste (2010)
    • SR report on freedom of religion or belief (2008)
    • SR report on the right to health (2007)
    • SR report on Myanmar to India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand (2006)
    • SR report SR on the right to food (2005)
    • SR report on violence against women (2000)

PART II. INDIA AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS TREATY BODIES

• Introduction to Human Rights
• Human Rights Committee (HRC)
• Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)
• Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
• Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
  • Concluding Observations on Gujarat women
• Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Each of the above sections contains the following: (i) Treaty, (ii) India’s Declarations/Reservation (if applicable) (iii) Latest Concluding Observations of the Treaty Body on India and (iv) Current Members of Treaty Bodies.