What does the Human Rights Committee do?
The Human Rights Committee meets three times a year for sessions of three weeks’ duration, normally in March at United Nations headquarters in New York and in July and November at the United Nations Office in Geneva. Countries who have ratified the ICCPR are obliged to report to the Committee every four years. The Committee reviews these country reports. Three to five countries are invited to present their reports at each session. The Committee examines each report and addresses its concerns and recommendations to the country in the form of “concluding observations.
