Human Rights Committee adopts report on follow-up to views

GENEVA (20 March 2019) - The Human Rights Committee this afternoon adopted a progress report on follow-up to views.

The report, presented by Photini Pazartzis, Committee Vice-Chair and the Special Rapporteur on follow-up to views on 19 March, concerned 17 communications from 12 States parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.  The report contained evaluations of the responses received on measures taken by the States parties, namely from Algeria, Australia, Cameroun, Chile, Côte d’Ivoire, Denmark, Spain, Lithuania, Netherlands, Paraguay, Czech Republic, and Zambia.

The draft text was adopted by the Committee as amended during the discussion and will be available on the Committee’s web page.  The Committee adopts its views after the consideration of communications from individuals claiming a violation of their rights under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

All the documents relating to the Committee’s work, including reports submitted by States parties, can be found on the session’s webpage.  The webcast of the Committee’s public meetings is available at UN Web TV.

The Committee will continue to meet in private until the session closing on Friday, 26 March at 4 p.m. when it will adopt its annual report and the concluding observations on the reports reviewed during the session, namely Angola, Estonia, Niger, and Viet Nam, and on Eritrea and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines which the Committee examined in the absence of a report.

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