CCPR/C/105/D/1303/2004
Annex
Views of the Human Rights Committee under article 5,
paragraph 4, of the Optional Protocol to the International
Covenant on Civil and Political rights (105th session)
concerning
Communication No. 1303/2004*
Submitted by:
Joyce Nawila Chiti (not represented by counsel)
Alleged victim:
Jack Chiti, the author and their five children.
State party:
Zambia
Date of communication:
26 July 2004 (initial submission)
The Human Rights Committee, established under article 28 of the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
Meeting on 26 July 2012,
Having concluded its consideration of communication No. 1303/2004, submitted to
the Human Rights Committee by Mrs. Joyce Nawila Chiti under the Optional Protocol to
the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
Having taken into account all written information made available to it by the author
of the communication and the State party,
Adopts the following:
Views under article 5, paragraph 4, of the Optional Protocol
1.1
The author of the communication is Joyce Nawila Chiti, a Zambian national, born in
1960 in Kitwe, Zambia. She submits her communication on her behalf as well as on behalf
of her husband, Jack Chiti, born on 10 August 1953 in Kalulushi, Zambia, and their
children. The author claims that Zambia has violated their rights under articles 2, paragraph
3; 7; 9, paragraph 1; 10, paragraph 1; 12, paragraph 1; 14, paragraph 3 (c) and (g); 16; 17,
paragraphs 1 and 2; 23, paragraph 1; 24, paragraph 1; and 26 1 of the Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights. She is not represented by counsel 2.
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2
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The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the present
communication: Mr. Yadh Ben Achour, Mr. Lazhari Bouzid, Ms. Christine Chanet, Mr. Cornelis
Flinterman, Mr. Yuji Iwasawa, Mr. Walter Kälin, Ms. Zonke Zanele Majodina, Ms. Iulia Antoanella
Motoc, Mr. Gerald L. Neuman, Mr. Michael O’Flaherty, Mr. Rafael Rivas Posada, Sir Nigel Rodley,
Mr. Fabián Omar Salvioli, Mr. Marat Sarsembayev, Mr. Krister Thelin and Ms. Margo Waterval.
The author mentions the articles violated without relating them to a specific victim. The author
usually speaks of the entire family as being the victim of violations of those provisions (see below in
the Complaint).
Both the Covenant and the Optional Protocol thereto entered into force for Zambia on 9 July 1984.