Seeking Remedies for Torture Victims: A Handbook on the Individual Complaints Procedures of the UN Tready Bodies Follow-up procedures on individual communications will generally be drawn to a close where the Committee deems its views to have been satisfactorily implemented. Follow-up dialogue may continue, be suspended, publicized in the HRC Annual Report, or even closed where partial or unsatisfactory implementation of the Committee’s views has occurred. This reflects the implementation challenges faced by the Committee, as once follow-up dialogue is closed (by the State party or Committee) in such situations the Committee is only able to report the failure in implementation.520 Therefore, it is critical to advocate for the continuation of the follow-up process by the HRC in order to prevent the closure of the follow-up examination of the case after a finding of a partly, not fully, satisfactory implementation.521 It has been suggested that conclusions and recommendations on individual communications should be included in the summary report produced by OHCHR on States parties at the Universal Periodic Review (UPR),522 which may present a more effective platform from which to publicly ‘shame’ States into taking implementation of the Committee’s views more seriously. 2.4.2 Follow-up by the CAT Committee The CAT Committee also has processes to follow up its Concluding Observations pursuant to the reporting procedure, as well as individual complaints decided under Article 22. a) Follow-up to Concluding Observations As part of its conclusions and recommendations issued pursuant to the reporting process under Article 19 of CAT, the CAT Committee may request that a State party take action within a set period of time to improve a situation where it is failing to meet its obligations under CAT. At least one Rapporteur is appointed by the CAT Committee to follow-up on State compliance with such recommendations.523 Since the initiation of the procedure in 2003, the CAT Committee has appointed one of its members as Rapporteurs to oversee compliance with its Concluding Observations. The role of this Rapporteur was further defined in the CAT 520 See CCPR Centre, “Overview of the 108th session of the Human Rights Committee” (section on Follow-up to Concluding Observations and Individual Communications), available at: http://www. ccprcentre.org/ publication/overview-of-the-sessions/108-session-overview/. 521 As it is sometimes the case, see, e.g., HRC, Haraldsson and Sveinsson v. Island, Comm. No. 1306/2004, follow-up, HRC, Report of the Human Rights Committee103rd and 104th session, (2012) UN Doc. A/67/40 (Vol.I 1), p. 114–115. 522 See Press Release, “Committee discusses individual communications, case management of individual communications and follow-up to concluding observations”, 22 July 2013, para. 13, news and media, available at: www.unog.ch. 523 CAT Committee, Rules of Procedure, Rule 72(1). 156