Protection of the family
Contribution of the family to the realization of the right to an adequate standard of living for its members, particularly through its role in poverty eradication and achieving sustainable development
In its resolution 29/22, adopted on 3 July 2015, the Human Rights Council requested the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to prepare a report on the impact of the implementation by States of their obligations under relevant provisions of international human rights law with regard to the protection of the family, and on the contribution of families in realizing the right to an adequate standard of living for their members, particularly through their role in poverty eradication and in achieving sustainable development, while giving due consideration to the status of the family in the developments related to the ongoing work on the future sustainable development goals and the post-2015 development agenda, and to present it to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-first session.
For the preparation of report, a note verbale requesting inputs was sent and written contributions were received from 24 States and 81 civil society organizations. Inputs were also received from several United Nations agencies and other inter-governmental organisations, as well as from national human rights institutions.
Submissions by Member States
- Argentina
1-2 - Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Belarus
1-2-3 - Bosnia and Herzegovina
1-2 - Chile
- Colombia
- Denmark
- Egypt
- Hungary
- Iran
- Kuwait
1-2 - Mexico
1-2 - Qatar
1-2 - Oman
- Peru
- Russian Federation
1-2 - Saudi Arabia
- Sweden
1-2 - Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
1-2 - United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
- Zimbabwe
Submissions by national human rights institutions
- Albania - Ombudsman Insitution
- Cape Verde - Comissão Nacional para os Direitos Humanos e Cidadania
- Mexico - Comision Nacional de los Derechos Humanos
- Samoa - Office of the Ombudsman
Submissions by UN bodies and international organizations
Submissions by other entities
Submissions by civil society organisations
- ABA-ABLA-ABEP-Cfmea-CLAM-SPW (Joint submission)
- ADF International
- Alliance of Romania's Families
- Allied Rainbow Communities
- Amar Es - Alianza Cívica Juvenil (Joint submission)
- Amnesty International
- Asia Pacific Alliance for Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights
- Asian Pacific Research and Resource Center for Women (ARROW)
- Asociación de Familias Numerosas de Madrid
- Asociación La Familia Importa (AFI)
- Asociación Stella Maris
- Association of Women Rights in Development
- Associazione Comunità Papa Giovanni XXII
- Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR)
- Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam)
- Center for Reproductive Rights
- Centro de Estudios y Formación Integral para la Mujer (CEFIM)
- Centro de Investigación Social Avanzada (CISAV)
- Child Rights International Network (CRIN)
- CitizenGo - La célula básica de la sociedad
- Comunidad y Justicia
- Confederation of Family Associations in the Carpathian Basin (KCSSZ)
- Construye - FORLID - RedMex Pasosx laVida
- Enraizados
- Familia y Sociedad
- Fédération des Associations Familiales Catoliques en Europe (FAFCE)
- Femina Europa
- Foro de Diálogo Civil de Paraguay
- Friends World Committee for Consultation - Quakers
- Fundación Familia y Futuro
- Fundacion Sí a la Vida
- Global HAWC - UN Family Rights Caucus (Joint submission)
- Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Health Education Rights Alternative HERA XXI
- Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society
- Institute for Family Policy (IFP)
- Instituto Panameño de Educación Familiar
- Intermedia Social Innovation
- International Center for Family Studies (CISF)
- International Lesbian and Gay Association
- International Muslim Womens Union
- Investigación, Formación y Estudios de la Mujer (ISFEM)
- IPPF - RFSU - SoP - SoS_Rutgers (Joint submission)
- ISHRI - SCSS (Joint submission)
- Jamaica Coalition for a Healthy Society
- Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation
- Magdalene Institute
- Musawah
- Network of European LGTB Families Association (NELFA)
- Ordo Iuris
- Orientación Para la Joven (OPJ)
- Out Right Action International
- Parents Rights in Education (PED)
- Partners for Law in Development (PLD)
- Point-Coeurs
- Population Research Institute (PRI)
- Profesionales por la Ética
- Rainbow Community Kampuchea (RoCK)
- Red por la vida
- Red pro Yucatan
- Ridge Project
- Save the Children ( Joint Submission)
- Sexo Seguro
- Sexual Rights Initiative
- Spanish Family Forum
- Unidos por la vida Colombia
- Unión Mundial de Organizaciones Femeninas Católicas (UMOFC)
- United Families International
- Vida SV
- Voz Publica AC (VOPAC)
- Women in Development Europe (WIDE+)
- Women of the World Platform
- Yo Influyo
Note Verbale
Note Verbale to All Permanent Missions to the United Nations in Geneva (HRC res 29/22) – E | F | S
Related documents
- Human Rights Council resolution 26/11
- Summary of the Human Rights Council panel discussion on the protection of the family (A/HRC/28/40)
- Joint Letter of Special Procedures mandate holder to the President of the Human Rights Council (3 July 2015)
- Statement by the Chairperson of the Coordination Committee of Special Procedures (A/HRC/28/41, Annex X)
- Letter of the President of the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice (1 September 2015)