Individual Complaints (Communications) To The Committee
The United Nations Human Rights Committee has the jurisdiction to examine individual complaints (or communications) concerning the violation of rights contained within the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), by virtue of the First Optional Protocol to the Covenant. This treaty is one of five international human rights treaties that contain individual complaints procedures. In addition, there are bodies with procedures in place to consider complaints that are not within the jurisdiction of the treaty body system.
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