FORUM together with partner organisations is active in international advocacy. Our objective is to inform the UN bodies as well as the Council of Europe organs about the (non)imlementation of international human rights obligations in the Czech Republic and Slovakia and thus contribute to the adoption of informed and targeted recommendations. FORUM has fined dozens of alternative reports to various international bodies. Some of them can be found below, together with the latest concluding observations.
UN Human Rights Committee
- NGO information to the UN Human Rights Committee for consideration when compiling the list of issues concerning the implementation of rights of people with disabilities in Slovakia (2015) 🇸🇰
- NGO information to the UN Human Rights Committee for consideration when compiling list of issues on immigration detention of families with minor children and other harmful detention practices in Slovakia (2015) 🇸🇰
- NGO information to the UN Human Rights Committee on the rights of people with disabilities in Slovakia (2016) 🇸🇰
- NGO information to the UN Human Rights Committee on the rights of people on the move in Slovakia (2016) 🇸🇰
- Slovakia: Concluding observations (2016 ) 🇸🇰
- Czech Republic: Concluding observations (2019) 🇨🇿
UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)
- Alternative report to CESCR from FORUM on poverty, children rights and rights of transgender persons in the Czech Republic (2020) 🇨🇿
- Alternative report to the CESCR from FORUM and VALIDITY on persons with disabilities in the Czech Republic (2020) 🇨🇿
- Alternative report to the CESCR from FORUM and OPU on the situation of asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in the Czech Republic (2020) 🇨🇿
- Czech Republic: Concluding observations (2022) 🇨🇿
- NGO information to CESCR from an NGO coalition on the rights of people with disabilities in Slovakia (2018) 🇸🇰
- Alternative report CESCR from FORUM and Poradna on the right to water in Romani communities in Slovakia (2019) 🇸🇰
- Alternative report to CESCR from an NGO coalition on the rights of people with disabilities in Slovakia (2019) 🇸🇰
- Alternative report to CESCR from FORUM, Socia and Proti prúdu on the right to social housing in Slovakia (2019) 🇸🇰
- Slovakia: Concluding observations (2019) 🇸🇰
UN Committee against Torture (CAT)
- Alternative report to CAT from a coalition of NGOs on the situation of people with disabilities in Slovakia (2023) 🇸🇰
- Alternative report to CAT on the police violence, the right to water and access to waste management in Romani communities in Slovakia (2023) 🇸🇰
- Slovakia: Concluding observations (2023) 🇸🇰
- Alternative report to CAT from FORUM and OPU on migrants and asylum-seekers in the Czech Republic (2021) 🇨🇿
- Alternative report to CAT from FORUM, VALIDITY and Inclusion Czech Republic on persons with disabilities in the Czech Republic (2021) 🇨🇿
- Alternative report to CAT from FORUM on the righst of children in conflict with law, children deprived of liberty and children facing poverty and social exclusion in the Czech Republic (2021) 🇨🇿
- Alternative report to CAT from FORUM and TRANS*PARENT on forced medical treatment and sterilisation of transgender persons in the Czech Republic (2021) 🇨🇿
- Czech Republic: List of issues (2021) 🇨🇿
- Alternative report to CAT from FORUM and ICJ on the access to a lawyer and presence of a lawyer for children below the age of criminal responsibility in the Czech Republic (2018)
- Alternative report to CAT from FORUM and Organisation for Aid to Refugees on immigration detention of families with children in the Czech Republic (2018)
- Alternative report to CAT from FORUM and VALIDITY on persons with disabilities in the Czech Republic (2018)
- Czech Republic: Concluding observations (2018) 🇨🇿
UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
- Alternative report to CEDAW concerning situation of women with disabilities in the Czech Republic (2016) 🇨🇿
- Alternative report to CEDAW concerning the situation of migrant women in the Czech Republic (2016) 🇨🇿
- Czech Republic: Concluding observations (2016) 🇨🇿
- Slovakia: Concluding observations (2023) 🇸🇰
UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
- Aternative report to CRC concerning the situtation of chidren with disabilities in Slovakia (2016) 🇸🇰
- Aternative report to CRC concerning the immigration detention of families with children and the situation of unaccompanied minors in Slovakia (2016) 🇸🇰
- Slovakia: Concluding observations (2016) 🇸🇰
- Alternative report to CRC from FORUM and OPU on the rights of children on the move in the Czech Republic (2020) 🇨🇿
- Additional alternative report to CRC from FORUM and OPU on the rights of children on the move in the Czech Republic (2021) 🇨🇿
- Alternative report to CRC from FORUM and VALIDITY on the rights of children with disabilities in the Czech Republic (2020) 🇨🇿
- Additional alternative report to CRC from FORUM, VALIDITY and SPMP on the rights of children with disabilities in the Czech Republic (2021) 🇨🇿
- Alternative report to CRC from FORUM on the rights of children in the criminal justice system in the Czech Reublic (2020) 🇨🇿
- Czech Republic: Concluding observations (2021) 🇨🇿
UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
- Alternative report to the CRPD Committee concerning the Czech Republic (2019) 🇨🇿
- Alternative report to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities concerning the Czech Republic (2015) 🇨🇿
- Czech Republic: Concluding observations (2015) 🇨🇿
- Alternative report to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities concerning Slovakia (2015) 🇸🇰
- Slovakia: List of issues (2019) 🇸🇰
European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR)
- Alternative report to the European Committee on Social Rights on the implementation of Articles 16 and 17 of the European Social Charter in the Czech Republic (2023) 🇨🇿
- Alternative report to the European Committee of Social Rights concerning implementation of selected provisions of the European Social Charter in the Czech Republic (2015) 🇨🇿