Examples of using Its first optional protocol in English and their translations into Spanish
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The Covenant and its first Optional Protocol came into force for Maldives on 19 December 2006.
Convention on the Rights of the Child(1990) and its first Optional Protocol recently ratified.
Please explain how the State party considers this provision to be compatible with the obligations of Barbados as State party to the Covenant and its first Optional Protocol.
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its First Optional Protocol(accession 27 June 1984);
Please provide information on training provided for public officials, in particular teachers, judges, lawyers and police officers,concerning the Covenant and its First Optional Protocol.
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its First Optional Protocol entered into force in 1976.
The existence of ICCPR and its first Optional Protocol had not been considered sufficient reason to prevent the adoption of the Convention against Torture with both an individual communications and an inquiry procedure.
It has ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,including its first Optional Protocol.
The State party should take measures to raise awareness of the Covenant and its first Optional Protocol among judges, lawyers and prosecutors to ensure that its provisions are taken into account by domestic courts.
Poland accepted a wide range of international obligations in the field of human rights. It is party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights(1977),including its first Optional Protocol, which came into force in 1992.
Please provide information on steps taken to disseminate information on the Covenant and its First Optional Protocol, the submission of the initial report of the State party, the previous concluding observations, and the forthcoming examination of the report by the Committee.
Maldives acceded to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its first Optional Protocol on 19 September 2006.
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its first Optional Protocol, The first Optional Protocol to the ICCPR allows individuals to submit communications to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, a body of experts established to supervise the implementation of the Covenant article 28.
Barbados had acceded to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, its First Optional Protocol, and a number of other instruments.
The constitutional amendment allowing the Governor General to set time constraints to ensure a swift andfair appeals process was not in any way incompatible with the obligations of Barbados as a State party to the Covenant and its first Optional Protocol.
The members of the Committee also stressed the importance of publicizing the provisions of the Covenant and its first Optional Protocol among the population in general and judicial circles in particular.
In the same area, Brazil is considering recognizing the competence of the Human Rights Committee to receive and review individual complaints of violations of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights(ICCPR),as provided for in its First Optional Protocol.
Mr. AMOR(Chairperson of the Human Rights Committee) said that the International Covenant on Civil andPolitical Rights and its first Optional Protocol concerning individual communications were increasingly universal in scope; a total of 152 States had ratified the former, while 104 had ratified the latter.
Referring to the question regarding the dissemination of information on the Covenant, she said that the Constitution was currently published in a format which incorporated those international instruments which had been given constitutional status,including the Covenant and its first Optional Protocol.
In particular, in the field of preventing, combating and eradicating torture,Spain is a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its first Optional Protocol, and to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment CAT.
Additionally, the Human Rights Committee has begun preparatory work on a general comment that would address issues relating to reservations made upon ratification or accession to the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights or its first Optional Protocol.
Furthermore, my Special Representative also urged the Chairmanto complete the process of ratifying the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights(and its First Optional Protocol), the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
What is the status of the Constitutional(Amendment) Act 2002, which seeks to limit the length of time granted to condemned prisoners(including prisoners under sentence of death) to appeal to intergovernmental human rights bodies, such as the Human Rights Committee?How is this provision compatible with the obligations of Barbados as State party to the ICCPR and its first Optional Protocol?
It adds that Mexico is a party to the Convention against Torture andthe International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its first Optional Protocol, besides the American Convention on Human Rights, the Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture, and the InterAmerican Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons.
Nicaragua is a State party to the seven principal international human rights treaties,including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its first Optional Protocol and has signed its second Optional Protocol. .
By acceding to international conventions,particularly to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its First Optional Protocol, and to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Slovenia adopted the system of international monitoring over the fulfilment of obligations which include the possibility of a petition on the part of an individual.
Outreach programmes on the law broadcast by national television and radio, such as“Anteene Libre”,“Le Verdict”,“l'Heure H” and“Ligues Ouvertes”, have not only contributed to the large-scale campaign to publicize the Covenant and its first Optional Protocol, but have also helped inform the general public of the Committee's consideration of Cameroon's report.
Step up its efforts to accelerate the ratification, among others, of ICESCR as well as its Optional Protocol(OP-ICESCR),ICCPR and its first Optional Protocol(ICCPR-OP 1), CAT and its Optional Protocol(OP-CAT), CRC and its Optional Protocols(OP-CRC-AC and OP-CRC-SC), and the Optional Protocol to CEDAW(OP-CEDAW)(Portugal); 64.11.
Barbados is party to a number of human rights conventions that recognise, promote and protect this right, namely, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes of Genocide, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its First Optional Protocol, the American Convention on Human Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.