There are several other avenues for bringing individual complaints to United
Nations bodies. Complaints can be submitted to the Human Rights Council’s
complaint procedure (previously known as the 1503 procedure),2 its special
rapporteurs and working groups3 and to the Commission on the Status of
Women. However, these procedures have a different focus from those under
the above-mentioned international treaties, which provide individual redress
through quasi-judicial mechanisms. Complaints can also be submitted to organizations of the wider United Nations family, such as the International
Labour Organization (www.ilo.org) and the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization (www.unesco.org).
2
For more details, see www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/Pages/Complaint.aspx
(accessed 28 March 2013).
3
For more details, see www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/SP/Pages/Welcomepage.aspx
(accessed 28 March 2013).
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