Follow-up Procedures to Individual Complaints and Periodic State Reporting Mechanisms

Raoul Wallenberg Institute Human Rights Library

Volumn 7, Issue , 2001, Pages 201-215

  Schmidt, Markus G ^a  

^a UNITED NATIONS   (United States)

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EID: 85168943231     PISSN: 13883208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1163/9789004478886_013     Document Type: Chapter

References (34)

1. 1 See Annual Report of the Human Rights Committee for 1983 (Doc. A/38/40), pp. 100-101.
2. Cf. Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice, Reparation for Injuries Suffered in the Service of the United Nations, I.C.J. Reports 1949, pp. 174—188.
3. 3 For a background of the Committee's debates on the follow-up procedure, cf. Schmidt, Portée et suivi des constatations du Comité des droits de l'homme des Nations Unies, in: La Protection des droits de l'homme par le Comité des droits de l'homme... - les communications individuelles (Actes du Colloque de Montpellier, 6-7 March 1995), pp. 159-160.
4. 4 Annual Report for 1990, Document A/45/40, Vol. I, pp. 144-145; Vol. II, Appendix XI.
5. 5 Until April 1997, these follow-up progress reports were not made public. On 10 April 1997, the Committee decided that all future follow-up progress reports will be made public. For an example see Doc. CCPR/C/60/R.1 (23 July 1997).
6. 6 See Doc. A/49/40 (Annual Report for 1994), Vol. I, Chapter VIII G); A/50/40 (Annual Report for 1995), Chapter IX; A/51/40, Vol. I, Chapter VIII; A/52/40 (Annual Report for 1997), Vol. I, Chapter VIII; A/54/40 (Annual Report 1999), Vol. I, Chapter VII.
7. 7 Cf. Schmidt, Follow-Up Mechanisms before UN human right treaty bodies and the UN mechanisms beyond, paper presented at York University, Toronto, Canada, 23 June 1997 (mimeo), pp. 5-6.
8. 8 This was the reply of the Austrian Government on the Committee's Views on case No.415/1990 (Pauger v. Austria): cf. Annual Report for 1996 (Doc. A/51/40), Chapter VIII, paragraph 432.
9. 9 See Annual Report for 1999, Doc. A/54/40, Chapter VII, paras. 456-475.
10. 10 See for example Annual Report for 1997, Chapter VIII, paragraphs 526-552.
11. 11 See Annual Report for 1996, Doc. A/51/40, paragraph 442 (Equatorial Guinea); Annual Report for 1997 (A/52/40), paragraph 532 (Cameroon).
12. 12 See Annual Report for 1995, Doc. A/50/40, Vol. I, paragraphs 557-562.
13. 13 Cf. Annual Report for 1996, Doc. A/51/40, paragraph 427.
14. th session, document CCPR/C/60/R.1 (23 July 1997), pp. 75-76 (Senegal), 98 (Zambia).
15. 15 Such arguments have for example been advanced by Uruguay in a number of follow-up replies.
16. 16 Cf. articles 39 and 40 of Law 23.506 of 1985, under which Peru undertakes to implement the Committee's recommendations; this legislation was rescinded in the autumn of 1996.
17. 17 See enabling law No.288 of 1996; the recommendations of the Colombian Ministerial Committee which approve compensation of victims of provisions of the ICCPR on the basis of the Committee's Views are included in resolutions 8/96 to 17/96 of 11 September 1996: see Annual Report of the Committee for 1997, Doc. A/ 52/40, Vol. I, paragraph 535.
18. 18 See Document A/50/40, Vol. I, paragraph 565; Document A/51/40, Vol. I, paragraph 466.
19. ï9 Doc. A/51/40 (Annual Report for 1996), paragraph 18.
20. 20 See in particular paragraph 429 of Annual Report for 1996 (Doc. A/51/40).
21. 21 E.g., for the Committee against Torture, Draft consolidated guidelines for the initial parts of the reports of States parties, Annual Report for 1990, Doc. A/45/44, Annex IV; for the revised guidelines of the Human Rights Committee, see "Consolidated Guidelines for States parties reports" (CCPR/C/66/GUN Rev. 1) (1 November 1999); for the Committee on the Rights of the Child, see Doc. CRC/C/5 (30 October 1991), and CRC/C/58 (20 November 1996) (Guidelines regarding form and content of reports under CRC).
22. 22 Cf. Revised Plan of Action to strengthen the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, November 1996, paragraph 12.
23. 23 An example are some of the replies given by Lebanon's representative during consideration of the second periodic report of Lebanon in April 1997: cf. CCPR/C/ SR. 1578 and SR. 1579 (7 April 1997), and CCPR/C/79/Add.77 (Concluding Observations), especially paragraphs 12 and 15.
24. 24 Concluding Observations on Third Periodic Report of Peru, Doc. CCPR/C/79/ Add.72 (18 Nov. 1996), para. 11; the initial observations are reprinted in the Annual Report for 1996, Doc. A/51/40, paras. 339-364 - the system of "faceless judges" is severely criticized in para. 350.
25. 25 GA Resolution 51/87 (18 December 1996), paragraph 14.
26. 26 Cf. Annual Report for 1996, Doc. A/51/40, paragraph 33.
27. 27 Follow-Up to the examination of State reports, informal working paper for the Working Group on article 40, July 1997 (not made public).
28. 28 Some of these ideas are developed by Evatt, Ensuring Effective Supervisory procedures: The Need for Resources, in: The Future of UN Human Rights Treaty Monitoring (Cambridge: Cambr. Univ. Press, 2000), Ch. 21, p. 468.
29. 29 See UN Document A/51/950 (14 July 1997), paras. 194-206.
30. 30 ACC is the UN system's supreme coordinating body, chaired by the UN Secretary-General and attended by the directors-general of all specialized agencies.
31. 31 Although a staff member of ONHCHR did accompany the Working Group on Best Practices on a mission to Malawi in January 1997.
32. 32 Cf. report of the CCPOQ meeting held in Geneva from 3-7 March 1997, Doc. ACC/1997/7.
33. 33 Field offices are currently in place in Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Georgia/Abkhazia, FRY, Bosnia Herzegovina, Croatia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Colombia, Occupied Territories, Mongolia, Indonesia.
34. 34 Cf. Schmidt, Servicing and Financing Human Rights supervisory bodies, in: The Future of UN Human Rights Monitoring (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000), Chapter 22, p. 490.