HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE OPENS ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIRST SESSION
(WorldNews Switzerland)

16 October 2017 The Human Rights Committee this morning opened its one hundred and twenty-first session at the Palais Wilson in Geneva, hearing an address by Adam Abdelmoula, Director of the Human Rights Council and Treaty Mechanisms Division of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Committee adopted the agenda of the session and heard a presentation of the report of the Working Group on communications. In his opening statement, Mr. Abdelmoula reminded that the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights was the treaty with the fourth highest number of States not complying with their reporting obligations in a timely manner: 36 per cent of initial reports under...