registered for consideration by the Committee. Ihe authors of some 100 further communications have been informed that the Committee does not intend to consider their cases, as they fall clearly outside the scope of the Covenant or appear to be frivolous. 611. Two volumes containing selected decisions of the Human Sights Committee under the Optional Protocol, from the second to the sixteenth sessions and from the seventeenth to the thiry-second sessions, respectively, have been issued. 612. During the forty-third to forty-fifth sessions, the Committee concluded consideration of 19 cases by adopting its views thereon. These are cases Nos. 205/1986 (Mikmaq v. Canada), 230/1987 (Raphael Henry v. Jamaica), 240/1987 (Willard Collins v. Jamaica), 248/1987 (Glenfora Campbell v. Jamaica), 269/1987 (Delroy Prince v. Jamaica), 270/1988 and 271/1988 (Randolph Barrett and Clyde Sutcliffe v. Jamaica), 272/1988 {Alrick Thomas v. Jamaica), 276/1988 (Trevor Ellis v. Jamaica), 277/1988 (Juan Teran Jijon v. Ecuador), 283/1988 (Aston Little v. Jamaica), 289/1988 (Dieter Wolf v. Panama), 293/1988 (Horace Hibbert v. Jamaica), 319/1988 (Edgar A. Canon Garcia v. Ecuador), 336/1988 (Nicole Fillastre v. Bolivia), 349/1989 (Clifton Wright v. Jamaica), 395/1990 (M. Th. Sprenger v. the Netherlands), 410/1990 (Csaba Parkanyi v. Hungary) and 415/1990 (Dietmar Pauger v. Austria). The texts of the views in these 19 cases are reproduced in annex IX. 613. The Committee also concluded consideration of 31 cases by declaring them inadmissible. These are cases Nos. 233/1987 (M.F. v. Jamaica), 287/1988 (O.H.C. v. Colombia), 331/1988 (G.J. v. Trinidad and Tobago), 335/1988 (M.F. v, Jamaica), 340/1988 (R.W. v. Jamaica), 347/1988 (S.G. v. France), 348/1989 (G.B. v. France), 351/1989 (N.A.J. v. Jamaica), 358/1989 (R.L. et al. v. Canada), 363/1989 (R.L.M. v. France), 367/1989 (J.J.C. v. Canada), 381/1989 (L.E.S.K. v. the Netherlands), 382/1989 (C.F. v. Jamaica), 383/1989 (H.C. v. Jamaica), 393/1990 (A.C. v. France), 394/1990 (C.B.D. v. the Netherlands), 396/1990 (M.S. v. the Netherlands), 397/1990 (P.S. v. Denmark), 398/1990 (A.M. v. Finland), 401/1990 (J.P.K. v. the Netherlands), 403/1990 (T.W.M.B. v. the Netherlands), 405/1990 (M.R. v. Jamaica), 408/1990 (W.J.H. v. the Netherlands), 439/1990 {C.L.D. v. France), 446/1991 (J.P. v. Canada), 448/1991 (H.J.H* v. the Hetherlands), 457/1991 (A.I.E. v. the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya), 463/1991 (D.B.-B. v. Zaire), 483/1991 (J.v.K. and C.M.G.v.K.-S. v, the Netherlands), 486/1992 (K.C. v. Canada) and 491/1992 (J.L. v. Australia). The texts of the decisions in these 31 cases are reproduced in annex X. 614. During the period under review, 24 communications were declared admissible for examination on the merits; decisions declaring communications admissible are not made public. Consideration of seven cases was discontinued. Procedural decisions were adopted in a number of pending cases (under rules 86 and 91 of the Committee's rules of procedure or under article 4 of the Optional Protocol). Secretariat action was requested on other pending cases. B. Growth of the Committee's case-load under the Optional Protocol 615. As the Committee has already stated in previous annual reports, and as indicated in paragraph 22 of the present report, the increased number of -146-

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