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UN Human Rights Committee completes its 95th session in New York
On 3rd April, the Human Rights Committee finished its 95th session
after three weeks of meetings in New York. It reviewed State party
reports from Australia, Rwanda and Sweden, but at the request of the
Government of Chad, decided to defer consideration of this State until
its next session in July 2009. Chad's absence enabled the Committee to
make some headway in addressing its backlog of communications, but it
acknowledged that the backlog remains significant.
In a number of meetings to review its methods of work, the Committee
also considered issues such as: how to strengthen the follow-up
procedure to individual communications under the First Optional
Protocol, and whether it should amend its rules of procedure to set
time limits for the submission of these communications. Although
several Committee members were keen to take action to improve the
efficiency and transparency of the Committee's work, discussions about
its methods of work remain ongoing.
ISHR has produced reports on the three country reviews (Australia, Rwanda, Sweden) ,and a report outlining developments in the Committee's review of its methods of work.
The
Committee's 96th session will be held in Geneva from 13-31 July 2009.
It will review reports from Azerbaijan, Chad, the Netherlands and the
United Republic of Tanzania. The Committee's Taskforce will meet to
consider and adopt a 'list of issues' on reports submitted by
Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, New Zealand and Uzbekistan. The Committee
will also consider a number of individual communications in closed
meetings during the session.
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women held 43rd session from 19 January to 6 February 2009
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination
against Women held its 43rd session from 19 January to 6 February 2009.
It examined the reports of Armenia, Cameroon, Dominica, Germany,
Guatemala, Haiti, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and Rwanda.
Our reports on the examinations will be available in the Publications section.
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