Seeking Remedies for Torture Victims: A Handbook on the Individual Complaints Procedures of the UN Tready Bodies
c) Coordinating with other Human Rights Mechanisms
To ensure that two bodies are not simultaneously dealing with the same case or
set of circumstances a procedure has been set in place:
As soon as a case is brought before the Group, the secretariat checks whether it
does indeed fall under the Group’s mandate. If the principal violation suffered by
the detained person falls under the practice of torture, summary execution or enforced disappearance, the case is forwarded to the appropriate special rapporteur
or working group.502
The Working Group may, therefore, when examining allegations, pass them on
to another more appropriate Working Group or Special Rapporteur, or coordinate
with another Working Group to address the issue jointly.503
d) Practical Information
For further information on the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention including
reports, press releases, relevant international standards and guidelines for submission of a communication (model questionnaire) see their website at:
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Detention/Pages/WGADIndex.aspx.
Communications on an individual case or cases, or those requesting the Working
Group to launch an urgent appeal on humanitarian grounds, should be sent to the
following address:
Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
c/o Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
United Nations Office at Geneva
8–14, avenue de la Paix
1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Or, as is particularly preferable for urgent appeals, by fax to: +41 22 9179006, or by
email to: wgad@ohchr.org.
2.4 Follow-up to Procedure
2.4.1 Follow-up by the Human Rights Committee
The HRC has developed specific follow-up procedures, which it applies in the context of two of its primary functions. First, it has a follow-up procedure for the
implementation of several of the key recommendations made in its Concluding
Observations, in the year following the consideration of a State party’s report.
502 Ibid., Part VII.
503 Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Revised Working Methods, (2011) UN Doc. A/HRC/16/47,
Annex, Part VII.
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