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Ten individual submissions against Serbia submitted to UN bodies
Belgrade,
15 December 2009
Assistant Minister for Human and Minority Rights Sanja Jasarevic-Kuzic today stated that ten individual complaints have been submitted against Serbia to UN bodies concerning violations of international agreements on human rights protection.
At the conference "Individual Submissions to UN Contractual Bodies and Execution of Their Decisions in Serbia" Jasarevic-Kuzic specified that six complaints were submitted to the Committee against Torture, three to the Human Rights Committee and one to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
She stressed that nine submissions have been dealt with, while the process for the tenth is underway, adding that the largest number of submissions were filed by the Humanitarian Law Centre together with the European Roma Rights Centre and the Yugoslav Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights (JUKOM).
Jasarevic-Kuzic noted that the committees contemplate the submissions only after all domestic legal remedies are exhausted.
She explained that Serbia accepted the competences of these committees and is therefore obliged to carry out their decisions, noting however that no legal and institutional mechanisms for preparing responses to submissions have been established.
She noted that Serbia is a member of the seven fundamental UN conventions on human rights protection.
Jasarevic-Kuzic specified that these are the International Pact of Civil and Political Rights, International Pact on economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
The conference was organised by the Ministry for Human and Minority Rights together with the OSCE and UN missions in Serbia.
The aim of the conference was to find solutions when it comes to specifying the roles of state organs and their cooperation in preparing the state’s responses in proceedings at UN bodies.
She stressed that nine submissions have been dealt with, while the process for the tenth is underway, adding that the largest number of submissions were filed by the Humanitarian Law Centre together with the European Roma Rights Centre and the Yugoslav Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights (JUKOM).
Jasarevic-Kuzic noted that the committees contemplate the submissions only after all domestic legal remedies are exhausted.
She explained that Serbia accepted the competences of these committees and is therefore obliged to carry out their decisions, noting however that no legal and institutional mechanisms for preparing responses to submissions have been established.
She noted that Serbia is a member of the seven fundamental UN conventions on human rights protection.
Jasarevic-Kuzic specified that these are the International Pact of Civil and Political Rights, International Pact on economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
The conference was organised by the Ministry for Human and Minority Rights together with the OSCE and UN missions in Serbia.
The aim of the conference was to find solutions when it comes to specifying the roles of state organs and their cooperation in preparing the state’s responses in proceedings at UN bodies.
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