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consistency of all adopted concluding observations and treaty body
jurisprudence.
✔✔ Country rapporteur – country rapporteurs are responsible for reviewing
the State party report and any other material pertaining to the review
of that State, including information from civil society, NHRIs and United
Nations entities. The country rapporteur presents a list of issues to the
treaty body for adoption (see fig. I). Subsequently, the country rapporteur
must prepare for the dialogue, including by reviewing any responses from
the State party to the list of issues as well as any additional information that
the committee receives related to the situation in that State. The country
rapporteur leads the dialogue on behalf of the treaty body. In some
committees, he or she makes a presentation directly after the introductory
remarks by the head of delegation of the State party presenting its
report and also makes concluding remarks at the end of the dialogue.
✔✔ Member of a country task force – some treaty bodies support the country
rapporteur via a country task force. The task force, normally comprising
between two and four additional members, assists the country rapporteur
in all of the functions outlined above, especially in the preparation of the
list of issues and in the dialogue with the delegation of the State party.
✔✔ Rapporteur on new communications/interim measures – new individual
communications arrive and are registered throughout the year. The
relevant treaty bodies appoint a member to serve as special rapporteur for
new communications and interim measures. The rapporteur liaises with the
secretariat on an ongoing basis in fulfilling this function. On occasion, the
author of the communication seeks interim measures to prevent irreparable
harm being done. Such requests are considered as a matter of urgency—
including in between sessions—by the rapporteur, who, on the authority of
the treaty body, may then issue requests to State parties for interim measures.
✔✔ Individual communications case rapporteur – once the file of an individual
communication is ready for consideration, the treaty body assigns the case
to a member known as the case rapporteur. Assisted by the secretariat, the
case rapporteur reviews all the submissions from the State party and the
author, and prepares a first draft of findings (such as on admissibility and
the merits of the communication) for the treaty body’s review. Normally, a
working group of the treaty body reviews the first draft before its review at
the plenary meeting of the treaty body.
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