7 years 1 month ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONSIDERS REPORT OF GEORGIA
11 July 2014
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Committee today completed its consideration of the fourth periodic report of Georgia on its implementation of the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Presenting the report, Tea Tsulukiani, Minister of Justice of Georgia, said that in April 2014, Georgia had, for the first time, adopted a seven-year National Human Rights Strategy. In May 2014, the Law on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination had been adopted, while the process of de-politicization of the police and transformation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs into a…
7 years 1 month ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONSIDERS REPORT OF MALAWI
10 July 2014
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Committee today completed its consideration of the initial report of Malawi on its implementation of the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Janet Banda, Solicitor General and Secretary for Justice of Malawi, said that the presentation of Malawi’s initial report was a major step in the State’s commitment to its people in ensuring the entrenchment and enjoyment of human rights and the rule of law. Since 2012, when the report had been compiled, Malawi had made a number of significant achievements. In May 2014, the first ever tripartite…
7 years 1 month ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONSIDERS REPORT OF SUDAN
09 July 2014
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Committee today completed its consideration of the fourth periodic report of Sudan on its implementation of the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Presenting the report, Isameldin Abdelgadir, Deputy Minister and Undersecretary at the Ministry of Justice of Sudan, stated that Sudan was committed to the protection and promotion of human rights in theory and in practice, in accordance with constitutional principles and laws, in full compliance with international human rights laws. The current report had been prepared in an inclusive and…
7 years 1 month ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONSIDERS REPORT OF CHILE
08 July 2014
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Committee today completed its consideration of the sixth periodic report of Chile on its implementation of the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Presenting the report, Edgardo Riveros, Under-Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile, said that Chile had taken necessary actions to ensure that international standards were reflected in national policies and programmes. Chile’s commitment to the protection and promotion of human rights was non-negotiable, and the notion of jus cogens was now strongly incorporated in Chile’s…
7 years 1 month ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE OPENS ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVENTH SESSION Adopts its Agenda and Programme of Work
07 July 2014
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Committee this morning opened its one hundred and eleventh session, hearing an address by Simon Walker, Chief of Section in the Human Rights Treaty Division at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and adopting its agenda and programme of work.
Mr. Walker congratulated Committee members whose terms had been extended and expressed gratitude to those whose terms were coming to an end. Regarding the right to privacy in the context of surveillance in the digital age, Mr. Walker said that the contents of…
7 years 4 months ago
LITHUANIAN EX-PRESIDENT’S LIFELONG POLITICS BAN IS NOT OBJECTIVE SAYS UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE
09 April 2014
Press Release
GENEVA (9 April 2014) - Lithuania violated the political rights of ex-president Rolandas Paksas when it introduced a rule to ban anyone who had been impeached from running for or holding high office just weeks after the former leader had himself been removed from his post for abuse of power, the United Nations Human Rights Committee has found.
The Committee, after considering a complaint brought by Mr. Paksas, said on Wednesday that the ex-leader could not have foreseen the ban, which was not in force when he was impeached. Lithuania…
7 years 4 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONCLUDES ITS ONE HUNDREDTH AND TENTH SESSION
28 March 2014
Press Release
Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on the Reports of Chad, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Nepal, Sierra Leone and the United States
The Human Rights Committee this afternoon concluded its one hundredth and tenth session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Chad, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Nepal, Sierra Leone and the United States on how they are implementing the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
The Committee’s concluding observations and recommendations on the six reports are available on its…
7 years 4 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONCLUDES FIRST READING OF DRAFT GENERAL COMMENT ON THE RIGHT TO LIBERTY AND SECURITY OF PERSON
25 March 2014
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Committee today concluded its first reading of its draft General Comment on Article 9 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, on the right of everybody to liberty and security of person.
The Committee discussed a new paragraph stating that security detention or administrative detention or internment solely because a person was suspected of being a threat represented a severe risk of arbitrary detention, and could only be used under the most exceptional circumstances. The paragraph…
7 years 4 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE DISCUSSES FOLLOW-UP TO CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS AND TO VIEWS
24 March 2014
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Committee this morning discussed a progress report by the Special Rapporteur on Follow-up to Concluding Observations and a progress report by the Special Rapporteur on Follow-up to Views.
The Committee’s procedure for following-up to its concluding observations issued to States consists of identifying a limited number of its recommendations which required additional information from a State party, within one year from the consideration of the Committee’s review of a State party’s country report. At every session the Committee Member acting as…
7 years 4 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE DISCUSSES DRAFT GENERAL COMMENT ON THE RIGHT TO LIBERTY AND SECURITY OF PERSON
21 March 2014
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Committee today concluded its first reading of its draft General Comment on Article 9 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, on the right of everybody to liberty and security of person.
The Committee focused on a proposed paragraph on preventive or security detention. The initial wording proposed stated that such detention was, outside of the context of an armed conflict, “compatible with the Covenant only pursuant to a derogation from Article 9, paragraph 1, that accords with all the requirements of…
