Reports and evidence from international organisations

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UNITED NATIONS UN

The issue of countering antisemitism is present

in much of the work of the UN. Parties to the

UN human rights treaties are obliged to submit

regular reports on the implementation of the

treaties for review by the respective expert

committee, so-called treaty bodies. The Committee

on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination(CERD)

examines each report and addresses concerns of

and recommendations to the parties to the ICERD

in the form of ‘concluding observations’.30 The

concluding observations highlight, among others,

the issue of antisemitism in the States Parties and

provide related recommendations.

Similarly, in relation to the ICCPR, the Human Rights

Committee (CCPR) monitors the implementation

of the instrument.31

Antisemitism is also addressed within the Universal

Periodic Review (UPR), which supplements the

expert assessments by the treaty bodies.32 The UPR

is aprocess under the auspices of the UN Human

Rights Council, which reviews the human rights

records of all UN member states. The review is

based on aset of documents put together on the basis of reports submitted

by the governments themselves as well as by UN human rights mechanisms

(treaty bodies and so-called special procedures), National Human Rights

Institutions, regional mechanisms (such as FRA) and non-governmental

organisations. States are responsible for implementing the recommendations

included in af‌inal outcome report.

These processes occur in cycles and not every EU Member State is reviewed

every year. Table1 summarises some of the observations and recommendations

published in 2019.

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The table lists only the countries where the observations

and recommendations received make reference to ‘Jews’ and/or ‘antisemitism’.

30 UN, Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) (2019),

Concluding observations.

31 UN, CCPR (2019), Concluding observations.

32 UN, Human Rights Council (HRC) (2019), Universal Periodic Review.

33 The observations and recommendations were included for the f‌irst time in the

2016 edition of this report– available on FRA’s website– listing observations

and recommendations made in 2005–2015. Subsequent reports have listed the

observations and recommendations published during the reference year of the

respective report.

Reports and evidence from

international organisations

FRA’s European Fundamental Rights

Information System (EFRIS) is an

online tool that brings together

UN and Council of Europe human

rights mechanisms, and EU Member

States’ commitments to relevant

instruments. The tool can also be

used to facilitate access to relevant

information on antisemitism. For

instance, the tool provides easy

access to reports by UN treaty

bodies and special procedures,

including the Human Rights

Committee, the Committee on

Elimination of Racial Discrimination,

and the Special Rapporteur on

freedom of religion and belief. With

regard to the Council of Europe,

information on the case law of the

ECtHR and ECRI can be accessed

through the tool.

For access to the tool, see FRA’s

website.

EFRIS–

relevant

mechanisms

reporting on

antisemitism