International Monitoring Mechanisms Human Rights Committee UN Committee against Torture PtD Project (IRCT, HRFT, REDRESS, PHR)
{"Image DocumentName": "International Monitoring Mechanisms", "Image ImageDescription": "Human Rights Committee. UN Committee against Torture. The Human Rights Committee. The Human Rights Committee is established as a monitoring body by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The Committee comprises 18 independent experts elected by the states parties to the Covenant. It examines reports which states parties are obliged to submit periodically and issues concluding observations that draw attention to points of concern and make specific recommendations to the state. The Committee can also consider communications from individuals who claim to have been the victims of violations of the Covenant by a state party. For this procedure to apply to individuals, the state must also have become a party to the first Optional Protocol to the Covenant. The UN Committee against Torture. The Committee against Torture is a body of ten independent experts established under the Convention against Torture. It considers reports submitted by States Parties regarding their implementation of the provisions of the Convention and issues concluding observations. It may examine communications from individuals, if the state concerned has agreed to this procedure by making a declaration under Article 22 of the Convention. There is also a procedure, under Article 20, by which the Committee may initiate an investigation if it considers there to be \u2018well-founded indications that torture is being systematically practised in the territory of a State Party\u2019. A new Optional Protocol was adopted by the UN General Assembly in December This establishe a complementary dual system of regular visits to places of detention in order to prevent torture and ill-treatment. The first of these is an international visiting mechanism, or a \u2018Sub-Committee\u2019 of ten independent experts who will conduct periodic visits to places of detention. The second involves an obligation on states parties to set up, designate or maintain one or several national visiting mechanisms, which can conduct more regular visits. The international and national mechanisms will make recommendations to the authorities concerned with a view to improving the treatment of persons deprived of their liberty and the conditions of detention. PtD Project (IRCT, HRFT, REDRESS, PHR)", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}