The UN Human Rights Committee has published its findings on the civil and political rights record of countries it examined during its latest session: Slovakia, Poland, Moldova, Jamaica, Colombia, Azerbaijan and Morocco.
The findings, officially termed concluding observations, contain positive aspects of the respective State’s implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), and also main matters of concern and recommendations.
The concluding observations are available here:
http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/SessionDetails1.aspx?SessionID=1034&Lang=en
The Human Rights Committee, composed of 18 international independent experts, monitors implementation of the ICCPR by States that have ratified the Covenant.
It will next meet from 6 to 29 March 2017 to review the following countries: Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Serbia, Thailand, and Turkmenistan. More details here: http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/SessionDetails1.aspx?SessionID=1116&Lang=en
Distributed by APO on behalf of Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
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