Author Archives: Carmelo

Thanks to the adoption by the General Assembly of an Optional Protocol to the Covenant in 2008, the Committee will have the competence to receive and consider communications from individuals who claim to be victims of a violation of the rights set …

The monitoring functions, through the mechanism of periodic reporting by States parties, were initially assigned to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). In 1985, in order to fulfill that task, the ECOSOC established a Committee on Economic, Social and …

The Committee addresses the situation of human rights in Western Sahara through the following mechanisms: Periodic Review Individual Communication

The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights The Periodic Review Mechanism The Individual Communication Procedure

The individual communication procedure set up by the Third Optional Protocol (see, OP CRC complaint procedure) entered into force in 2014. It is worth noting that Morocco has signed the Optional Protocol on a communication procedure in 2012: once ratified, individuals …

The situation of human rights in Western Sahara has been taken into account during the evaluation of the periodic reports of Morocco. In relation to Saharawi refugees, the Committee has issued specific recommendations during the evaluation of the periodic reports …

The Committee may address the situation of human rights in Western Sahara through the following mechanisms: Periodic Review Individual Communication

In 2012 a new Optional Protocol was adopted with the aim of setting up a communication procedure. It entered into force in 2014. The individual communication procedure is a mechanism that allows individuals, who deem to have suffered the violation of a …

A Committee on the Rights of the Child was set up by the Convention (Art. 43). Its main function is to consider the period reports that each State party is obliged to submit in order to communicate the measures taken to give …