Human Rights Committee - 141st Session (1 July - 23 July 2024)
Published on 20 Mar 2024, 01:58 PM
State reviews of Croatia, Honduras, India, Maldives, Malta, Suriname and Syria
Chilean human rights defender Mariela Infante intervening in the Human Rights Committee.
The 141st session of the Human Rights Committee will be held from 1 July to 23 July 2024. The Committee will review Croatia, Honduras, India, Maldives, Malta, Suriname and Syria. The dialogues will be public and it will be possible to follow in-person and online.
The Committee will also adopt the List of Issues of Chad and the List of Issues Prior to Reporting of Austria, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Latvia, and Sierra Leone.
The Committee will also evaluate Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia and Lao People’s Democratic Republic under the follow-up procedure to Concluding Observations.
The program of work is available here.
Deadlines for submission of reports
The deadline to submit NGO written contributions (alternative reports) for the States parties under review is 3 June 2024.
The deadline for written contributions for those States reviewed under the Follow-up procedure was 8 April 2024.
The deadline for written contributions for the adoption of List of Issues or List of Issues Prior to Reporting States was 6 May 2024.
The full NGO briefing note with more information about the process is available here.
NGO Briefings
There are two kinds of briefings for NGO participation with the Human Rights Committee:
Formal briefings: they are organized by the UN Secretariat and participation will be in-person. To register, an email should be sent to Cherry Balmaceda (cherry.balmaceda@un.org) with copy to the Secretariat’s generic email (ohchr-ccpr@un.org). The deadline to register for the briefings is 14 June 2024. The dates and times for the formal briefings are the following:
- - Croatia, Malta and Honduras: Monday 1st July at 3pm
- - Syrian Araba Republic, Maldives and Suriname: Monday 8th July at 10am
- - India: Monday 15th July at 10am
Informal briefings: CCPR Centre, in agreement with the Human Rights Committee's Secretariat, organizes informal NGO briefings. These briefings are open on invitation only and will be hybrid. To register, NGOs have to fill an online form available here. The deadline to register for the informal briefings is also 14 June 2024. The dates and times of the informal briefings are the following:
- - Croatia: hybrid - Monday 1st July at 2pm
- - Honduras: hybrid - Wednesday 3rd July at 2pm
- - Maldives: hybrid - Monday 8th July at 2pm
- - Suriname: hybrid - Tuesday 9th July at 2pm
- - Syrian Arab Republic: online - Wednesday 10th July at 2pm
- - India: hybrid - Monday 15th July at 9am
LOI/LOIPR briefings:
- Côte d'Ivoire: online - Wednesday 17th July at 2pm
- Austria: online - Friday 19th July at 9am
- Sierra Leone: online - Friday 19th July at 2pm
Do not hesitate to contact us at info@ccprcentre.org if you would like more information.
