A/76/44
v. Canada (CAT/C/70/D/873/2018), F.S. v. Switzerland (CAT/C/70/D/876/2018), H.S.D. v.
Canada (CAT/C/70/D/877/2018), S.S. v. Australia (CAT/C/70/D/895/2018), R.T. v.
Australia (CAT/C/70/D/932/2019), B.T. v. Serbia (CAT/C/70/D/936/2019), A.R. v. Sweden
(CAT/C/70/D/950/2019), M.B. v. Montenegro (CAT/C/70/D/970/2019) and B.T.M. v.
Switzerland (CAT/C/70/D/1015/2020). The Committee also decided to postpone the
examination of one complaint, R.G. v. Russian Federation (No. 902/2018), to the next in situ
session.
49.
At its seventieth session, the Committee discontinued the consideration of 14
communications: D.L. v. Sweden (CAT/C/70/D/785/2016), H.S.M. v. Canada
(CAT/C/70/D/809/2017), H.B. v. Switzerland (CAT/C/70/D/833/2017), M v. Sweden
(CAT/C/70/D/837/2017), M.P. v. Bulgaria (CAT/C/70/D/847/2017), E.D. v. Switzerland
(CAT/C/70/D/867/2018), A.H. v. Sweden (CAT/C/70/D/919/2019), M.S.K. v. Switzerland
(CAT/C/70/D/925/2019), R.D. v. Sweden (CAT/C/70/D/940/2019), O.E. v. Switzerland
(CAT/C/70/D/959/2019), S.N. v. Australia (CAT/C/70/D/961/2019), J.A. v. Sweden
(CAT/C/70/D/966/2019), S.I.A.M. v. Switzerland (CAT/C/70/D/976/2020) and H.H. v.
Sweden (CAT/C/70/D/990/2020).
D.
Follow-up activities
50.
At its twenty-eighth session, in May 2002, the Committee established the function of
Rapporteur for follow-up on decisions adopted under article 22, which is currently held by
Mr. Heller. At its 527th meeting, on 16 May 2002, the Committee decided that the Rapporteur
should engage, inter alia, in the following activities: monitoring compliance with the
Committee’s decisions by sending notes verbales to States parties enquiring about measures
adopted pursuant to the Committee’s decisions; recommending to the Committee appropriate
action upon the receipt of responses from States parties, in situations of non-response, and
upon the receipt henceforth of all letters from complainants concerning non-implementation
of the Committee’s decisions; meeting with representatives of the permanent missions of
States parties to encourage compliance and to determine whether advisory services or
technical assistance by OHCHR would be appropriate or desirable; conducting with the
approval of the Committee follow-up visits to States parties; and preparing periodic reports
for the Committee on his or her activities.
51.
During the reporting period, the Committee did not review submissions related to its
decisions that are currently monitored through the follow-up procedure. As at 28 April 2021,
the Committee had closed the follow-up dialogue with a note of satisfactory or partially
satisfactory resolution with regard to 70 communications, out of a total of 158
communications where it had found violations of different provisions of the Convention.
VII. Meetings of the Committee in 2021
52.
Further to General Assembly resolution 68/268, the Committee is to hold two further
regular sessions in 2021: the seventy-first (12–30 July 2021) and the seventy-second (8
November–3 December 2021).
VIII. Adoption of the annual report of the Committee on its
activities
53.
In accordance with article 24 of the Convention, the Committee is required to submit
an annual report on its activities to the States parties and to the General Assembly. Since the
Committee holds its third regular session of each calendar year in November, which coincides
with the regular sessions of the General Assembly, it adopts its annual report at the end of its
spring session, for transmission to the General Assembly during the same calendar year.
Accordingly, the Committee considered and adopted the report on the activities it carried out
during the period under review.
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