UN Human Rights Committee to review
Equatorial Guinea, Mauritania, Netherlands, Nigeria, Paraguay, and Tajikistan
GENEVA (June 27, 2019) — The UN
Human Rights Committee, which monitors implementation by States of the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), will meet in
Geneva from July 1 to 26 to review the situation for human rights in Equatorial
Guinea, Mauritania, Netherlands, Nigeria, Paraguay, and Tajikistan.
The public sessions will take place
in the ground floor conference room of Palais Wilson in Geneva and will be
Webcast live at http://webtv.un.org/. The recommended hashtag for the meeting
will be #CCPR126.
All the countries listed above have
ratified the ICCPR, and so are required to be reviewed regularly by the
Committee of 18 international independent experts. The Committee will also hear
from NGOs and national human rights institutions.
More information, including
submitted reports by the States, may be found here.
At the end of its session the
Committee will publish its findings (known as concluding observations) here on
July 25, and present them at a press conference in Press Room 1 at 13:30 (to be
confirmed).
ENDS
Background
The Human Rights Committee monitors
States parties’ adherence to the International Covenant on Civil and PoliticalRights, which to date has 172 States parties. The Committee is made up of 18members who are independent human rights experts drawn from around the world,
who serve in their personal capacity and not as representatives of States
parties.
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Julia Grønnevet in Geneva at +41 22 917 9310/jgronnevet@ohchr.org. More
information is available on media accreditation.
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