Human Rights Committee
Monitoring civil and political rights
The Human Rights Committee is the
body of independent
experts that monitors implementation of the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by its State parties.
All States parties are obliged to submit regular reports to the
Committee on how the rights are being implemented. States must
report initially one year after acceding to the Covenant and then
whenever the Committee requests (usually every four years). The
Committee examines each report and addresses its concerns and
recommendations to the State party in the form of "concluding
observations”. In addition to the reporting procedure, article
41 of the Covenant provides for the Committee to consider inter-state
complaints. Furthermore, the First Optional
Protocol to the Covenant gives the Committee competence to
examine individual
complaints with regard to alleged violations of the Covenant by
States parties to the Protocol.
The
full competence of the Committee extends to the Second
Optional Protocol to the Covenant on the abolition of the death
penalty with regard to States who have accepted the Protocol.
The Committee meets in Geneva or New York and normally holds
three sessions
per year.
The Committee also publishes its interpretation of the content of
human rights provisions, known as general
comments on thematic issues or its methods of work.
For more information about the work of the Human Rights
Committee, click here.
New Publication
Now
available in PDF
Compilación de observaciones finales del Comité de
Derechos Humanos sobre países de América Latina y el Caribe
(1977-2004)
A compilation of HRC concluding observations for Latin
American and Caribbean countries in their original languages.
Contains all of the concluding observations of the Committee
from 1977 to 2004 relating to Spanish-speaking countries in
Spanish, English-speaking countries (as well as Brazil) in
English, and Francophone countries in French.
Published by OHCHR and the Centro de Derechos Humanos of
the Universidad de Santiago, Chile.
ISBN:
To download a copy (3.2MB), click on the cover page
A limited number of hard copies are available from the
Santiago regional office by contacting gmira@eclac.cl Subject to
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