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Date Title Publishing Organization Country PDF Protected Area Involved
May 12, 2025 CERD – Letter to India under the Early Warning and Urgent Measures Procedure: Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination India
Sept. 26, 2024 Visita a Colombia - Informe del Relator Especial sobre los derechos de los Pueblos Indigenas - Versión anticipada no editada Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Colombia
June 3, 2024 ACHPR – Batwa of Kahuzi-Biega National Park v. DRC African Commission and Court on Human and Peoples Rights Democratic Republic of Congo Kahuzi Biega National Park
Jan. 22, 2024 ACHPR – Urgent Letter of Appeal to DRC African Commission and Court on Human and Peoples Rights Democratic Republic of Congo Kahuzi Biega National Park
Sept. 11, 2023 Concluding observations on the second periodic report of Uganda Human Rights Committee Uganda
Feb. 24, 2023 Mission of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights to the United Republic of Tanzania, 23-28 January 2023 African Commission and Court on Human and Peoples Rights Tanzania Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Dec. 23, 2022 UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing - Towards a just transformation: climate crisis and the right to housing Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living Global
Dec. 22, 2022 CESCR - General Comment No. 26 land and economic, social and cultural rights Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Global
Dec. 1, 2022 Communications send by Special Procedures - Thailand 2022 Communications send by Special Procedures on violations related to protected areas Thailand
Nov. 11, 2022 CESCR Concluding Observations - Land Disputes and Forced Evictions - Guatemala Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Guatemala
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