Human Rights Committee - 132nd Session - June 2021

A fourth online session with a State review of Togo

Palais Wilson in Geneva, Switzerland, the current headquarters of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

The Human Rights Committee is the body of independent experts that monitors the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by its state parties. 

All States parties are obliged to submit regular reports to the Committee on how the rights are being implemented. The Committee examines each report and addresses its concerns and recommendations to the State party in the form of "concluding observations”.

The 132nd Session will be held from the 28 June 2021 - 23 July 2021, and will once again be held online. 

The Human Rights Committee will review TOGO's implementation of the ICCPR in three sessions of 2 hours, that will be public and livestreamed. 

The Committee will adopt the List of Issues Prior to Reporting of ALBANIA, CANADA, ECUADOR, FRANCE, MOZAMBIQUE, TIMOR-LESTE and TURKEY, and the List of Issues of BURUNDI.

The Committee will then adopt the Progress report of Special Rapporteur on Follow-up to the Concluding Observations of BANGLADESH, SWITZERLAND, LIECHTENSTEIN and NEW ZEALAND. Furthermore, Progress reports of Special Rapporteur on Follow-up to Views will be concluded. And finally, the Committee will adopt the Annual Report to the General Assembly.

In a public session, the Committee will adopt the progress report of the Special Rapporteur on Follow-up to the Concluding Observations of Bangladesh, Liechtenstein, New Zealand and Switzerland.

It will also adopt Views to individual communications, but in closed meetings. 

The Programme of Work will be published in the coming weeks. 

All the public discussions will be webcast here.