Thursday, 8 May 2008

OHCHR Commitee Meeting Publications

Committee on Migrant Workers: Concluding Observations (8th session)

We are pleased to provide you herewith the sixth 2008 distribution of treaty body recommendations through the listserve administered by the Human RightsTreaties Branch, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Please, do not reply to this message.


For your information, we attach the concluding observations adopted by the Committee on Migrant Workers at its 8th session, held from 14 to 25 April 2008. The documents are provided in their unedited version and in the original language of adoption. The final versions, in all six official languages of the United Nations, will be available on the Treaty Body Database of the website of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (http://www.ohchr.org).

Under the Convention on Migrant Workers, the Committee adopted concluding observations in respect of the following State parties:

Bolivia http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/mwc/Bolivia.pdf

Syrian Arab Republic http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/mwc/Syria.pdf


Full information relating to the session can be found at the following webpage:
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cmw/cmws08.htm

At its 9th session from 24-28 November 2008, the Committee will consider the report of El Salvador. Full information relating to the 9th session can be found at the following webpage:
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cmw/cmws09.htm

Human Rights Treaties Branch
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

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Decisions of the Human Rights Committee (Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights)

Dear Subscribers,

We are pleased to provide you herewith the seventh 2008 distribution of treaty body recommendations through the listserve administered by the Human RightsTreaties Branch, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Please, do not reply to this message.

For your information, we attach the final decisions of the Human Rights Committee, adopted at its 92nd session, held in New York from 17 March to 4 April 2008, in respect of individual complaints presented under the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The decisions are provided in the original language of adoption, with translations into additional languages to be found in due course on the Treaty Body Database of the website of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (http://www.ohchr.org).

In the following six cases, the Committee found, in its decision on the merits of the case, one or more violations of the Covenant.

Susser_v_Czech Republic http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Susser_v_Czech_Republic.pdf
Rakhmatov_et_al_v_Tajikistan http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Rakhmatov_et_al_v_Tajikistan.pdf
Lumanog_v_Philippines http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Lumanog_v_Philippines.pdf
Lnenicka_v_Czech_Republic http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Lnenicka_v_Czech_Republic.pdf
Hens_Corujo_v_Spain http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Hens_Corujo_v_Spain.pdf
Babkin_v_Russian_Federation http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Babkin_v_Russian_Federation.pdf

In the following three cases, the Committee found, in its decision on the merits of the cases, no violation of the Covenant.


Asensi_v_Spain http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Asensi_v_Spain.pdf
Bauetdinov_v_Uzbekistan http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Bauetdinov_v_Uzbekistan.pdf
Oubina_v_Spain http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Oubina_v_Spain.pdf

In the following eleven cases, the Committee found the complaint to be inadmissible.

Ahmad_ Abdol-Hamid_v_Denmark http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Ahmad_Abdol_Hamid_v_Denmark.pdf
Conde_v_Spain http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Conde_v_Spain.pdf
Fernandez_v_Spain http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Fernandez_v_Spain.pdf
Gougnin Karimov_v_Uzbequistan http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Gougnin_Karimov_v_Uzbequistan.pdf
Kool_v_Netherlands http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Kool_v_Netherlands.pdf
Korneenko_v_Belarus http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Korneenko_v_Belarus.pdf
Londono Soto_et_al_v_Australia http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Londono_Soto_et_al_v_Australia.pdf
Mazon Costa _v_Spain http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Mazon_Costa_v_Spain.pdf
Schmidl_v_Czech_Republic http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Schmidl_v_Czech_Republic.pdf
Stow_Gai_v_Portugal http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Stow_Gai_v_Portugal.pdf
Subero_v_Spain http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/Subero_v_Spain.pdf


Further attached is the revised global Reporting Schedule setting out the State reports, received in the Secretariat and tentatively scheduled for consideration in 2008 and 2009, by treaty and session. The schedule, correct as of 5 May, is subject to change without notice.

http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/Reporting_Schedule.pdf

Human Rights Treaties Branch
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights


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