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Human Rights Committee
Monitoring civil and political rights
![[Image: Portrait of a Sudanese woman living at an internally displaced persons camp in the Dafur region. (UN Photo #NICA 14570 by Eskinder Debebe)]](http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrc/docs/photos/14570.jpg) 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.
![[Image: Public gathering in favour of literacy, Nicaragua, UNESCO Photo ID 10019297, Photographer: M- Soler-Roca. Used with permission.]](http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrc/docs/photos/2249.jpg) 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.
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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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![[Image: Portrait of a Sudanese woman living at an internally displaced persons camp in the Dafur region. (UN Photo #NICA 14570 by Eskinder Debebe)]](http://www.un.org/av/photo/subjects/images/14570.jpg)
![[Image: Public gathering in favour of literacy, Nicaragua, UNESCO Photo ID 10019297, Photographer: M- Soler-Roca. Used with permission.]](http://www.unesco.org//library/image/136/2249.jpg)
13-31 March 2006: 86th
session, Concluding Observations and list of issues adopted
now available