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47. In accordance with its rules of procedure, at its fifty-second session in May 2014
the Committee appointed a new Rapporteur for follow-up to concluding observations,
Mr. Modvig. 7
48. Since May 2003, through the end of the fifty-fourth session in May 2015, the
Committee has reviewed 175 reports from States parties for which it has identified followup recommendations. Of the 151 follow-up reports that were due by 15 May 2015, the time
of the adoption of the present report, 108 had been received by the Committee, for a 71 per
cent overall response rate. The status of the follow-up is compiled in a chart maintained on
the web page of the Committee. 8 Additional information, including submissions by State
parties, communications sent by the rapporteur for follow-up, State party responses and
reports from national human rights institutions, NGOs and other civil society actors are
posted on that web page.
49. As at 15 May 2015, the following States had not yet supplied follow -up
information that had fallen due: 9 Albania (forty-eighth session), Benin (thirty-ninth),
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (fiftieth), Burkina Faso (fifty -first), Cambodia (fortyfifth), Cameroon (forty-fourth), Chad (forty-second), Costa Rica (fortieth), Cuba
(forty-eighth), Cyprus (fifty-second), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (thirtyfifth), Djibouti (forty-seventh), Ecuador (forty-fifth), El Salvador (forty-third),
Ethiopia (forty-fifth), Gabon (forty-ninth), Ghana (forty-sixth), Guinea (fifty-second),
Honduras (forty-second), Indonesia (fortieth), Kuwait (forty-sixth), Kyrgyzstan (fiftyfirst), Lithuania (fifty-second), Madagascar (forty-seventh), Mauritania (fiftieth),
Mauritius (forty-sixth), Mongolia (forty-fifth), Montenegro (fifty-second),
Mozambique (fifty-first), Nicaragua (forty-second), Peru (thirty-sixth), the Republic
of Moldova (thirtieth), Rwanda (forty-eighth), Sierra Leone (fifty-second), South
Africa (thirty-seventh), the Syrian Arab Republic (forty-eighth), Tajikistan (thirtyseventh), Thailand (fifty-second), Togo (thirty-sixth), Uganda (thirty-fourth), Uruguay
(fifty-second), Yemen (forty-fourth) and Zambia (fortieth), and the Holy See (fiftysecond).
50. The Rapporteur sends reminders requesting the outstanding information to each
State party for which follow-up information is due, but not yet submitted. During the
period under review, the Rapporteur sent reminders to Burkina Faso, Guatemala,
Japan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Mauritania, Mozambique and the Plurinational
State of Bolivia. 10
51. Between 24 May 2014 and 15 May 2015, follow-up reports were received from
11 States parties, namely, in the order of receipt: the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Northern Ireland (CAT/C/GBR/CO/5/Add.1), Estonia (CAT/C/EST/CO/5/Add.1),
Guatemala (CAT/C/GTM/CO/5-6/Add.1), the Netherlands (CAT/C/NLD/CO/5-6/Add.1),
Kenya (CAT/C/KEN/CO/2/Add.1), Turkmenistan (CAT/C/TKM/CO/1/Add.2 and Add.3),
Andorra (CAT/C/AND/CO/1/Add.1), Poland (CAT/C/POL/CO/5-6/Add.1), Belgium
(CAT/C/BEL/CO/3/Add.1), Portugal (CAT/C/PRT/CO/5-6/Add.2) and Latvia (CAT/C/LVA/CO/35/Add.1). 11
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Ibid., para. 10 (a).
In 2010, the Committee established a separate web page for follow -up:
http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/TreatyBodyExternal/FollowUp.aspx?Treaty=CAT&Lang=en . An
overview of the follow-up procedure since 2003 can be found at the same web page.
States parties that did not supply follow-up information prior to the submission of their next
periodic report are not included in the list.
Communications sent by the Rapporteur for follow-up to concluding observations are available
from the web page for follow-up
(http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/TreatyBodyExternal/FollowUp.aspx?Treaty=CAT&Lang=en ).
Follow-up reports by State parties are available from the web page for follow -up.
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