[prisoner-rights] CAT 32nd session: Concluding observations

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We are pleased to attach for your information the Concluding Observations
in respect of reports presented by States parties to the Committee against
Torture, which held its 32nd session from 3 to 21 May 2004. The States
parties concerned are Bulgaria, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany,
Monaco and New Zealand. The documents are provided in their advance
unedited version and in the original language of adoption, with further
languages available in due course from the Treaty Body Database of the
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (http://www.ohchr.org).

Bulgaria          http://www.ohchr.org/tbru/cat/Bulgaria.pdf

Chile             http://www.ohchr.org/tbru/cat/Chile.pdf

Croatia           http://www.ohchr.org/tbru/cat/Croatia.pdf

Czech Republic    http://www.ohchr.org/tbru/cat/Czech_Republic.pdf

Germany           http://www.ohchr.org/tbru/cat/Germany.pdf

Monaco            http://www.ohchr.org/tbru/cat/Monaco.pdf

New Zealand       http://www.ohchr.org/tbru/cat/New_Zealand.pdf


 The Committee also drafted a letter to be addressed to the United
 States of America whose initial report was considered by the
 Committee in May 2000. In the letter, the Committee requested the
 State party to submit its second periodic report to the Committee by
 1 October 2004. The letter drew the State party's attention in
 particular to article 2.1 of the Convention, according to which each
 State party should take effective legislative, administrative,
 judicial or other measures to prevent acts of torture in any
 territory under its jurisdiction. The letter added that the report
 should include up-dated information concerning the situation in
 places of detention in Iraq, up to the time of the submission of the
 report.

The decisions of the Committee with respect to inidvidual communications
submitted under the article 22 of the Convention will be circulated under
cover of separate mail once the parties in each case have been advised of
the Committee's decision.

Further documentation, including with respect to past and future sessions,
is available at the follwoing webpage of the Office of the High
Commissioner for Human Rights covering the sessional work of the Committee
against Torture:

                  http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/6/cat/cats30.htm#32nd

Further attached is the revised global Reporting Schedule setting out the
State reports, received in the Secretariat and tentatively scheduled for
consideration in 2004 and 2005, by treaty and session. The schedule,
correct as of 18 May 2004, is subject to change without notice.

                  http://www.ohchr.org/tbru/Reporting_schedule.pdf


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