party; for inquiries under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Discrimination against Women, the information should indicate grave
or systematic violations of the rights set forth in the Convention by a State
party;
2. A committee first invites the State party to cooperate in the examination
of the information by submitting observations;
3. A committee may, on the basis of the State party’s observations and other
relevant information available to it, decide to designate one or more of
its members to make a confidential inquiry and report to the committee
urgently. The procedures under the Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination against Women, the International Convention
for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities specifically authorize a visit to the territory of the State concerned, if warranted and with
the State’s consent; visits are also envisaged by the procedure under the
Convention against Torture;
4. The findings of the member(s) are then examined by the committee and
transmitted to the State party together with any appropriate comments or
suggestions/recommendations;
5. The procedures under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities set a six-month deadline for the State party to
respond with its own observations on the Committee’s findings, comments
and recommendations and to inform the Committee of the measures taken in response to the inquiry if the Committee invites it to do so;
6. A committee may decide, in consultation with the State party, to include a
summary account of the results of the proceedings in its annual report. If
the State party agrees, the full inquiry and the State party’s response may
be made public;
7. The cooperation of the State party must be sought throughout the proceedings.
F. Urgent action and urgent appeals to the General
Assembly under the International Convention for the
Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
As briefly mentioned in chapter I, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance enables its Committee
to take urgent action. Under article 30, the Committee may receive urgent
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