UN HUMAN RIGHTS IN 2019
Facts and Figures in 2019
MEMBER STATE COOPERATION
39
3,174
57
treaty actions
2 signatures
19 ratifications
18 accessions
Governments hosted
84
over
visits by special
procedures mandates
133
official documents
submitted for meetings
of human rights
mechanisms, General
Assembly and ECOSOC
State Party reports reviewed
by the treaty bodies with
7 States Parties visited
by the Subcommittee on
Prevention of Torture
PEOPLE CENTRED
35,997
8,59 4
victims of torture in
77 countries received
rehabilitation support
victims of contemporary
forms of slavery in 23
countries obtained assistance
77
HUMAN RIGHTS MECHANISMS SUPPORT
Support to
the work of
172 treaty
body experts during
27 sessions
for a total of
92
resolutions
adopted by the
Human Rights
Council
95 weeks
HUMAN RIGHTS INTEGRATION IN THE UN
27,771
submissions related to
individual complaints and
Committee on Enforced
Disappearances urgent
actions received
CIVIL SOCIETY ENGAGEMENT
2,521
oral statements delivered by
NGOs during Human Rights
Council sessions
Data available as at 31 December 2019
fellows (41 women and 36 men) from
indigenous, Afrodescendant and minority
communities in 56 countries, participated in
the UN Human Rights Fellowship Programme
Over
2,420
participants in the 8th
Forum on Business and
Human Rights
12
human rights
components in UN
Peace Missions,
including 524 staff,
supported by UN
Human Rights
37
Human Rights
Advisers were
deployed in UN
Country Teams
66
grants were awarded by the UN Human Rights
Grants Committee to the total amount of
US$4,272,554 for projects to
be implemented in over 28 countries
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