Universal Human Rights Index

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations has created a database called the Universal Human Rights Index.

The database provides country reports emanating from the United nations system:

• Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
• Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  
• Human Rights Committee
  
• Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
  
• Committee against Torture
  
• Committee on the Rights of the Child
  
• Committee on Migrant Workers
  
• Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
• Committee on Enforced Disappearance
• Country visits reports of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture – when made public
• Country visits reports of Special Procedures’ mandate-holders assessing the general human rights situation in a given country (indexed since 2006). Mandate holders are called on to report to the Human Rights Council:
• On human rights situations in specific countries or territories ( country mandates);
• On major phenomena of human rights violations worldwide ( thematic mandates)

• Recommendations made under the Universal Periodic Review (indexed since the first session in 2008), which is a State-driven process under the auspices of the Human Rights Council involving a periodic review of the human rights records of all 193 UN Member States once every four years