Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply CHN 13/2013 Freedom of 14/11/2013 China (People's expression; JUA Republic of) Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Health; Human rights defenders; Torture; Alleged arbitrary detention of human rights defender Ms Cao Shunli and deprivation of medical treatment. According to the information received, Chinese authorities confirmed Ms Cao Shunli’s detention at Chaoyang District Detention Centre on 21 October 2013, five weeks after she had disappeared, and one day before the People’s Republic of China’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR). It has been further alleged that Ms Cao Shunli appeared frail and thin, and that she had not been receiving medical attention for a liver condition. Additionally, when her lawyer tried to submit an application for bail on 31 October 2013, she was informed that the relevant person was not in the office. 24/01/2014 ESP 5/2013 15/11/2013 Spain JAL 07/02/2014 Alleged concerns over the impact of the economic crisis and austerity measures, in 03/04/2014 particular on the right to adequate housing and the right to an adequate standard of living. According to the information received, a combination of legal reforms, budget enactments and policy interventions conducted between 2010 and 2013 aimed at reducing public expenditures by historic margins at the national, regional and municipal levels. One of the main effects of the Government’s austerity policies has been that the number of people at risk of poverty and exclusion has significantly increased by over two million since 2008. The absence of official data on the number of evictions affecting family homes and the absence of regulations to relocate the evicted families reportedly has made it difficult to assess the dimensions of this problem. Adequate housing; Extreme poverty; Foreign debt; A/HRC/26/21 95