Individual communications

The Committee can receive and consider individual communications, also known as complaints, from or on behalf of a person or group of persons claiming to be victims of a violation of the Convention by a State party. Where a communication is submitted on behalf of individuals or groups of individuals, this shall be with their consent unless the author can justify acting on their behalf without such consent.

For the Committee to be able to receive individual complaints, the State party concerned must have recognized the Committee’s competence by ratifying the Optional Protocol (CRPD-OP). You can check this here.

The following resources provide more information on submitting complaints:

• Fact sheet on the procedure for submitting communications to the CRPD under the Optional Protocol to the Convention CRPD/C/5/2/Rev.1 | Plain English version
• Revised guidelines for submitting communications to the CRPD under the Optional Protocol to the Convention CRPD/C/5/3/Rev.1 | Plain English version
• Individual complaints form and guidance note
• Guidelines on third-party interventions
• General information about the complaints procedures for all Treaty Bodies
• General information about individual complaints

Recent complaints

• Table of pending cases (Excel)

Jurisprudence

Browse decisions adopted by the CRPD in the Jurisprudence database

Jurisprudence highlights

• April - November 2023
• November 2022 - March 2023
• September - October 2022

Follow up

• Follow up table – closed cases
• Latest Report on follow up to individual communications

How to submit a complaint

Complaints should be submitted using the online submission form.

Learn more: Treaty bodies communications page