Source: http://projecteleanor.blogspot.com/2014/01/individual-case-decisions-of-human.html
Timestamp: 2019-04-22 22:50:52+00:00

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There have been 78 individual case decisions issued by the UN human rights treaty system in 2013. The exact number is always a little uncertain. I've included below one decision which was technically issued in 2012 but which apparently first became available in 2013 (CCPR 1912 Thuraisamy v. Canada). In addition there is one decision that has been listed by the human rights office but is not yet available (CCPR 1839 Komarovsky v. Belarus).
Here is a table of decisions, in chronological order as they were issued during 2013, showing the treaty body that issued the decision, complaint number, party names, outcome and session during which the case was decided.
Of the 78 decisions, there were 41 cases where the state was held responsible for human rights violations. No violations were held to be committed in 13 cases. And 24 cases were dismissed as inadmissible for various reasons, usually because the complainant failed to adequately exhaust domestic legal remedies before filing the complaint with the treaty body.
As in prior years, the majority of decisions are issued by the Human Rights Committee (CCPR); they issued 55 decisions in 2013. The breakout by the remaining Committees was as follows: Committee Against Torture (CAT) -- 14 decisions; Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) -- 5 decisions; the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) -- 2 decisions; and the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) -- 2 decisions.
The full text of each of these decisions can be accessed at each Committee website (look for the menu item "Complaints procedure" and then click "Table of jurisprudence"). Or you can also usually find copies in the treaty body database maintained by the Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights.
The most significant decisions issued in 2013 probably included the two Australia asylum decisions reported by the Human Rights Committee in July (A.G.F.K. v. Australia and M.M.M. v. Australia) -- both of which held Australia's practice of indefinite detention for some types of "security risk" asylum seekers to be illegal. I summarised these cases in an earlier post.
The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) also continues to issue important precedent cases. In Nyusti et al v. Hungary they held that governments must ensure access of disabled persons to private banking facilities, including ATM machines, and including for both visual and physical impairments. The decision is significant in that it underlines the application of the treaty to private businesses, not just government or public businesses. It also sets out some minimum expectations for governments in this regard. In Bjudoso et al v. Hungary the Committee decided that the right to vote must not be discriminatorily applied to disabled persons; the blanket prohibition from voting of persons with perceived intellectual disabilities was held to be a violation of the Convention.
Oher decisions of 2013 bear further discussion. Hopefully I will get some time to summarise some of the more important decisions in a later post. I welcome feedback from others who have reviewed any of the decisions that came out in 2013 regarding what they regard as the most important developments.

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