UN Human Rights Committee Adopts Optional Protocol

          
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          SER VICE DE LINFORMA TION - OFFICE DES NA TJONS UNIES A GEN VE
          INFORMA TION SER VICE - UNI TED NA TIONS OFFICE A T GENE VA
          Press Release HR/1268
          14 September 1982
          HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE ADOPTS VIEWS UNDER THE OPTIONAL PROTOCOL
          TO THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS
          ( The following is to be released simultaneously in Geneva and New York )
          Under the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and
          Political Rights individuals, who claim that any ot thei.r rights enumerated in
          the Covenant have been violated and who have exhausted all available domestic
          remedies, may submit written communications to the Human Rights Committee for
          consideration. Twenty—eight of the 71 States which have acceded to or
          ratified the Covenant have accepted the competence of the Committee for
          dealing with individual complaints by ratifying or acceding to the Optional
          Protocol. These States are Barbados, Bolivia, Canada, the Central African
          Republic, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador,
          Finland, Iceland, Italy, Jamaica, Madagascar, Mauritius, the Netherlands,
          Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Peru, Saint—Vicerit and the Grenadines, Senegal,
          Suriname, Sweden, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela cad Zaire. No
          communication can. be received by the Committee if it concerns a State party to
          the Covenant which is not also a party to the Optional Protocol.
          Cor.sjderation of communications under the Optional Protocol takes place in
          closed meetings.
          At its sixteenth session held from 12 to 30 July 1982 the Human Rights
          Committee examined a number of communications submitted to it under the
          Optional Protocol. It concluded consideration of two cases by adopting its
          views thereon. These are cases nos.; R.6/25 (Carmen AmII dola Massiotti and
          Graciela Baritussio v. Uruguay) and R.li/46 (Orlando Fals aorda et ci v.
          Colombia). The views of the Human Rights Committee in the above—mentioned
          cases are available upon request.
          The Human Rights Committee also decided to make public one decision
          declaring a communication inadmissible under the Optional Protocol (R.26/l2l,
          A.M. v. Denmark). This decision is also available upon request.
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