8 years 5 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONSIDERS REPORT OF ANGOLA
15 March 2013
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Committee today concluded its consideration of the initial report of Angola on how that country implements the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.Rui Carneiro Mangueira, Minister of Justice and Human Rights of Angola, presenting the report, recalled that after independence, Angola had suffered from a period of armed conflict and had not enjoyed the necessary conditions to implement the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Now that Angola had achieved peace and political stability, and the consolidation of the democratic…
8 years 5 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONSIDERS SITUATION IN BELIZE IN ABSENCE OF A REPORT
15 March 2013
Meeting Summaries
Belize has not Submitted a Report since it Ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in 1996
The Human Rights Committee today reviewed how Belize implements the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in the absence of a report. The Secretary of the Committee, Kate Fox, said Belize had stated it would be absent due to issues of finance.
The Committee had received written responses from Belize in response to a list of questions which had been sent to the State party.
Committee Expert Margo Waterval, Rapporteur…
8 years 5 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONSIDERS REPORT OF HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION OF CHINA
13 March 2013
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Committee today concluded its consideration of the third periodic report of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China on the implementation of the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China.
Chang King-yiu, the Permanent Secretary of the Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, presenting the report, highlighted issues which showed the Government’s commitment to human rights in the…
8 years 5 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE DISCUSSES WORKING METHODS
13 March 2013
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Committee this afternoon held a discussion on working methods on a proposal to request additional resources and on the agenda for its retreat to The Hague in April 2013.
Introducing the discussion, Nigel Rodley, Chairperson of the Human Rights Committee, recalled the proposal put forward by the Bureau to discuss a request to the General Assembly for additional resources. In order to do so, the Committee should request an assessment of cost implications in order to submit a formal request with the adoption of its final report. The Chairperson recalled that the Committee had…
8 years 5 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONSIDERS REPORT OF PARAGUAY
12 March 2013
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Committee today concluded its consideration of the third periodic report of Paraguay on how that country implements the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Maria Lorena Segovia Azucas, Minister of Justice and Labour of Paraguay, presenting the report, said people in Paraguay lived by the principles of democracy and protecting and promoting human rights was a central pillar of the Government. Paraguay was living in a time of peace and according to human rights principles with freedom of the press and no political prisoners. Paraguay had…
8 years 5 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE OPENS ONE HUNDREDTH AND SEVENTH SESSION
11 March 2013
Meeting Summaries
Observes Minute of Silence in Memory of Stephane Hessel, Elects Nigel Rodley as Chairperson
The Human Rights Committee this morning opened its one hundredth and seventh session, electing Nigel Rodley as Chairperson and a new Bureau, adopting its agenda and hearing an address by Jane Connors, Chief of the Special Procedures Branch of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Ms. Connors welcomed the new Committee members: Kheshoe Parsad Matadeen, Victor Manuel Rodriguez-Rescia, Anja Seibert-Fohr, Yuval Shany and Konstantine Vardzelashvili. The United Nations and…
8 years 9 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONCLUDES ONE-HUNDREDTH AND SIXTH SESSION
02 November 2012
Press Release
Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on the Reports of the Philippines, Turkey, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Portugal
The Human Rights Committee concluded this afternoon its one hundredth and sixth session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on reports submitted by the Philippines, Turkey, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Portugal on how they implement the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
The full text of the Committee's concluding observations on the reports submitted by the five States parties can be…
8 years 9 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE HEARS ORAL REPORT ON FOLLOW-UP TO VIEWS
31 October 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Committee this afternoon held a brief public meeting in which it heard an oral report from Committee Expert Krister Thelin, the Rapporteur on follow-up to views.
Mr. Thelin said it had been impossible to prepare a normal progress report because of budget constraints and staffing, but he applauded the secretariat for improvising. He would touch upon some of the findings in the draft report and would report on two meetings he had had on follow-up to views with Ukraine and Australia.
There was some good news concerning one case in Argentina after a communication…
8 years 9 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE HOLDS GENERAL DISCUSSION ON ARTICLE 9 ON THE RIGHT TO LIBERTY AND SECURITY OF PERSON
25 October 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Committee this afternoon held a public discussion in preparation for a new General Comment on Article 9 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on the right to liberty and security of persons, in which participants suggested that the General Comment included issues such as detention by non-State actors, detention in situations of armed conflict and in states of emergency, secret and incommunicado detention, detention in hospitals and detention of immigrants.
In his introductory remarks, Gerald…
8 years 9 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONSIDERS FOURTH PERIODIC REPORT OF PORTUGAL
24 October 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Committee this morning concluded its consideration of the fourth periodic report of Portugal on how this country has implemented the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. At the end of the meeting this morning, the Committee continued discussion of its working methods.
Graça Andresen Guimarães, Permanent Representative of Portugal to the United Nations Office at Geneva, introduced the report and said that measures had been taken to address the issue of excessive use of force by law enforcement officers, to combat child…
