G.
Monitoring compliance with the Committee's
views under the Optional Protocol
684. From its seventh session in 1979 to its forty-fifth session, the Human
Sights Committee has adopted views with respect to 138 communications received
under the Optional Protocol and found violations in 106. During the years,
however, the Committee has only been informed by States parties in relatively
few cases of any measures taken by them in pursuance of the views adopted. 10/
685. Because of the general lack of knowledge about State compliance with its
views, the Committee decided at its thirty-ninth session to establish a
mechanism that would permit it to seek and evaluate information concerning
State compliance and designated Mr. Janos Fodor as Special Rapporteur for the
follow-up of views. The measures adopted by the Committee in this respect are
reproduced in annex XI to its annual report for 1990. 11/
686. In carrying out his mandate, the Special Rapporteur for the follow-up of
views has requested written information from the States parties on any
measures taken in pursuance of the Committee's views. The Special Rapporteur
is in the process of analysing the replies received. He intends to report to
the Committee at the earliest opportunity.
Motes
1/
Official Records of the General Assembly. Forty-sixth Session.
Supplement Ho. 40 (A/46/40).
2/
Ibid., Thirty-second Session. Supplement No. 44 (A/32/44) and
corrigendum, annex IV.
2./
Ibid,, Thirty-sixth Session. Supplement Mo. 40 (A/36/40), annex V.
4/
Ibid., annex VI.
V
Ibid., Forty-fifth Session. Supplement Ho. 40 (A/45/40), vol. I,
para. 12*
£/
Ibid,, Forty-sixth Session. Supplement Ho. 40 (A/46/40), paras. 21
and 32 and annex VII.
1/
The reports and additional information of States parties are
documents for general distribution and are listed in the annexes to the annual
reports of the Committee; these documents, as well as the summary records of
the Committee's meetings, are published in the bound volumes that are being
issued under the title Yearbook of the Human Rights Committee, beginning with
the years 1977 and 1978.
8V
Official Records of the General Assembly. Forty-sixth Session.
Supplement Ho. 40 (A/46/40), paras, 229-257.
9_/
For the first part of the consideration by the Committee of the
third periodic report of Iraq, see Official Records of the General Assembly.
Forty-sixth Session. Supplement Ho. 40 (A/46/40), paras. 618-656.
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