CAT/C/67/D/854/2017 United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Distr.: General 11 September 2019 Original: English Committee against Torture Decision adopted by the Committee under article 22 of the Convention, concerning communication No. 854/2017*, ** Communication submitted by: A (represented by counsel, Philip Grant of TRIAL International) Alleged victim: The complainant State party: Bosnia and Herzegovina Date of complaint: 1 November 2017 (initial submission) Document references: Decision taken pursuant to rule 115 of the Committee’s rules of procedure, transmitted to the State party on 10 May 2016 (not issued in document form) Date of present decision: 2 August 2019 Subject matter: Right to fair and adequate compensation Procedural issues: None Substantive issues: Right to a remedy and compensation Articles of the Convention: 14 (1) in conjunction with 1 (1) 1. The complainant is A, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina, born in the former Yugoslavia in 1961. She claims that the State party has violated her rights under article 14 (1) in conjunction with article 1 (1) of the Convention against Torture. 1 The complainant is represented by counsel.2 The facts as submitted by the complainant 2.1 In 1992, the complainant and her 10-year-old daughter lived in Semizovac, within Vogosca Municipality, an area that was controlled by the forces of the Army of Republika Srpska (Vojska Republike Srpske, VRS) during the non-international armed conflict in * Adopted by the Committee at its sixty-seventh session (22 July–9 August 2019). ** The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the communication: 1 2 Essadia Belmir, Felice Gaer, Abdelwahab Hani, Claude Heller Rouassant, Jens Modvig, Ana Racu, Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón, Sébastien Touzé and Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov. Yugoslavia ratified the Convention on 10 September 1991. Bosnia and Herzegovina acceded to the Convention on 1 September 1993. On 4 June 2003, Bosnia and Herzegovina made a declaration recognizing the competence of the Committee to receive communications from individuals in accordance with article 22. The complainant requested anonymity and strict confidentiality. GE.19-15557(E) 

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