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Human Rights Council
Complaint Procedure Form |
- You are kindly
requested to submit your complaint in writing in one of the six official UN
languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish) and to use
these languages in any future correspondence;
- Anonymous complaints
are not admissible;
- It is recommended that
your complaint does not exceed eight pages, excluding enclosures.
- You are kindly
requested not to use abusive or insulting language.
I. Information concerning the author (s) of the communication or the
alleged victim (s) if other than the author
Individual Group of individuals NGO Other
Last name:
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First
name(s): ………….
Nationality:
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Address
for correspondence on this complaint: ………..
Tel and fax: (please indicate country and area code) ……….
E-mail: ……….
Website: ……….
Submitting the complaint:
On the
author’s own behalf:
On behalf of other persons: (Please
specify: ………………..)
II. Information on the State concerned
Name of the State concerned and, as
applicable, name of public authorities responsible for the alleged violation(s):
…………..
The complaint procedure addresses consistent
patterns of gross and reliably attested violations of all human rights and all
fundamental freedoms occurring in any part of the world and under any
circumstances.
Please
detail, in chronological order, the facts and circumstances of the alleged
violations including dates, places and alleged perpetrators and how you
consider that the facts and circumstances described violate your rights or that
of the concerned person(s).
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IV.
Exhaustion of domestic remedies
1- Steps taken by or on
behalf of the alleged victim(s) to exhaust domestic remedies– please provide details
on the procedures which have been pursued, including recourse to the courts and
other public authorities as well as national human rights institutions[*],
the claims made, at which times, and what the outcome was:
…………………..
2- If domestic remedies have
not been exhausted on grounds that their application would be ineffective or
unreasonably prolonged, please explain the reasons in detail:
…………………………
V. Submission of
communication to other human rights bodies
1- Have you already submitted
the same matter to a special procedure, a treaty body or other United Nations
or similar regional complaint procedures in the field of human rights?
……………
2- If so, detail which procedure
has been, or is being pursued, which claims have been made, at which times, and
the current status of the complaint before this body:
…………………………
VI.
Request for confidentiality
In case the
communication complies with the admissibility criteria set forth in Council
resolution 5/1, kindly note that it will be transmitted to the State concerned
so as to obtain the views of the latter on the allegations of violations.
Please
state whether you would like your identity or any specific information contained
in the complaint to be kept confidential.
Request
for confidentiality (Please
tick as appropriate): Yes No
Please
indicate which information you would like to be kept confidential
Date:
………………… Signature:
…………………….
N.B.
The blanks under the various sections of this form indicate where your
responses are required. You should take as much space as you need to set out
your responses. Your complaint should not exceed eights pages.
VII.
Checklist of supporting documents
Please
provide copies (not original) of supporting documents (kindly note that these
documents will not be returned) in one of the six UN official languages.
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Decisions of domestic courts and authorities on the claim made (a copy of the
relevant national legislation is also helpful):
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Complaints sent to any other procedure mentioned in section V (and any decisions taken under that procedure):
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Any other evidence or supporting documents deemed necessary:
VIII.
Where to send your communications?
Office
of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Human
Rights Council Branch-Complaint Procedure Unit
OHCHR- Palais Wilson
United
Nations Office at Geneva
CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Fax: (+41 22) 917 90 11
E-mail: CP@ohchr.org
[*]
National human rights institutions, established and operating under the
Principles Relating to the Status of National Institutions (the Paris
Principles), in particular in regard to quasi-judicial competence, may serve as
effective means of addressing individual human rights violations.
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