CAT/C/COG/CO/1
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr.: General
28 May 2015
English
Original: French
Committee against Torture
Concluding observations on the initial report of the Congo*
1.
The Committee against Torture considered the initial report of the Republic of the
Congo (CAT/C/COG/1) at its 1294th and 1297th meetings (see CAT/C/SR.1294 and 1297),
held on 22 and 23 April 2015, and adopted the following concluding observations at its
1314th, 1315th and 1316th meetings, held on 6 and 7 May 2015.
A.
Introduction
2.
The Committee welcomes the submission of the initial report but regrets that it was
submitted 10 years late. It also regrets that the report does not contain statistical data and
concrete examples relating to the implementation of the Convention.
3.
The Committee appreciates the frank and open dialogue with the State party’s highlevel delegation, which outlined the situation and the many problems encountered in the
implementation of the Convention in the Congo. It further appreciates the responses
provided orally to the questions posed by Committee members during their consideration of
the report.
B.
Positive aspects
4.
The Committee notes with appreciation that, since the entry into force of the
Convention for the State party on 29 August 2003, the latter has ratified the following
international instruments:
(a)
The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the
sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, in 2009;
(b)
The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the
involvement of children in armed conflict, in 2010;
(c)
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional
Protocol thereto, in 2014;
(d)
The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, in 2004.
* Adopted by the Committee at its fifty-fourth session (20 April‒15 May 2015).
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