UN Human Rights Committee (HRC)

The Human Rights Committee is the body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by its State parties.

All States parties are obliged to submit regular reports to the Committee on how the rights are being implemented. States must report initially one year after acceding to the Covenant and then whenever the Committee requests (usually every four years). The Committee examines each report and addresses its concerns and recommendations to the State party in the form of "concluding observations. Website: www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrc/

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Zhakhangir Bazarov v. Kyrgyzstan 8 December 2016 \| Judicial Body: UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness - Uzbek \| Countries: Kyrgyzstan
Zhakhangir Bazarov v. Kyrgyzstan 8 December 2016 \| Judicial Body: UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness - Uzbek \| Countries: Kyrgyzstan
Concluding observations on the fourth periodic report of Azerbaijan 16 November 2016 \| Publisher: UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) \| Document type: Concluding Observations
Concluding observations on the fifth periodic report of Argentina 10 August 2016 \| Publisher: UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) \| Document type: Concluding Observations
Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 40 of the Covenant, Fourth periodic reports of State parties due in 2009 : Democratic Republic of the Congo 2 August 2016 \| Publisher: UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) \| Document type: States Parties Reports
Mejdoub Chani v. Algeria 12 May 2016 \| Judicial Body: UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Exhaustion of domestic remedies - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Right to liberty and security \| Countries: Algeria
Mejdoub Chani v. Algeria 12 May 2016 \| Judicial Body: UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Exhaustion of domestic remedies - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Right to liberty and security \| Countries: Algeria
F.J. et al. v. Australia asylum seekers’ detention is arbitrary and contrary to their right to liberty if the State fails to demonstrate on an individual basis that their continuous indefinite detention is justified, and that other, less intrusive, measures could not achieve the same end of compliance with the State’s need to respond to security concerns. In addition, the HRC considers that the combination of the arbitrary character and indefinite nature of the authors’ protracted detention, the absence of procedural guarantees to challenge the detention and the difficult conditions of detention, cumulatively inflict serious psychological harm that amount to “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment” under the ICCPR. 2 May 2016 \| Judicial Body: UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) \| Document type: Case Law \| Legal Instrument: 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) \| Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Immigration Detention \| Countries: Afghanistan - Australia - Iran, Islamic Republic of - Sri Lanka
Dalisa Dovadzija and Sakiba Dovdzija v. Bosnia and Herzegovina 10 November 2015 \| Judicial Body: UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Children's rights - Disappeared persons - Effective remedy - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Right to liberty and security - Right to life \| Countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 40 of the Covenant, Sixth periodic reports of States parties due in 2015 : Ecuador 3 November 2015 \| Publisher: UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) \| Document type: States Parties Reports

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