UN Treaty Body General Comments and Recommendations Database

The UN Treaty Body General Comments and Recommendations Database is a comprehensive, searchable repository that includes all General Comments and General Recommendations adopted by UN Treaty Bodies. These documents offer authoritative interpretations of international human rights treaties and elaborate on the obligations that states have under these treaties.

Main Functions:

• Document Access: Browse full texts of over 150 General Comments and Recommendations.
• Search Capabilities: Filter relevant paragraphs by keywords, target groups (e.g., children, persons with disabilities, women), specific UN Treaty Bodies (e.g., Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), and years of adoption.
• Analytics: Identify trends in search results, such as common collocations and the most active Treaty Bodies addressing a given query.
• Data Export: Export selected data via Excel (xlsx).

Developers/Administrators

This database was developed by Dr. Łukasz Szoszkiewicz from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, in collaboration with Zuzanna Kowalska, Joanna Walczak, and Martyna Osztynowicz.

Users

The database is publicly accessible with no restrictions. It is particularly useful for:

• Members of UN Treaty Bodies, Special Procedures mandate holders, and UN agencies.
• National stakeholders such as National Human Rights Institutions, ombudspersons.
• Human rights experts and researchers.
• Students.
• Civil society organizations.
• Media professionals.

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