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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.
Les communiquds sont destinds a linformation; us ne constituent pas des documents offficiels
For use of information media; riot an offficial record
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