CERD/C/84/D/50/2012
Annex
Opinion of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination under article 14 of the International
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination (eighty-fourth session)
concerning
Communication No. 50/2012*
Submitted by:
A.M.M. (not represented by counsel)
Alleged victim:
The petitioner
State party:
Switzerland
Date of communication:
8 January 2012 (initial submission)
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, established under
article 8 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination,
Meeting on 18 February 2014,
Having concluded its consideration of communication No. 50/2012, submitted to the
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination by A.M.M. under article 14 of the
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,
Having taken into account all information made available to it by the petitioner, his
counsel and the State party,
Adopts the following:
Opinion
1.
The author of the communication dated 8 January 2012 is A.M.M., a Somali
national born in Mogadishu on 10 December 1968. He claims to be a victim of violations
by Switzerland of articles 1 (paras. 1–4), 2 (para. 2), 4 (subpara. (c)), 5 (subparas. (a), (b)
and (d) (i) and (iii) to (v)), 6 and 7 of the Convention.1 The petitioner is not represented by
counsel.
* The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the communication: Mr.
1
2
Nourredine Amir; Mr. Alexei S. Avtonomov; Mr. Marc Bossuyt; Mr. José Francisco Calí Tzay; Ms.
Anastasia Crickley; Ms. Fatimata-Binta Victoire Dah; Mr. Ion Diaconu; Ms. Afiwa-Kindena
Hohoueto; Mr. Yong’an Huang; Mr. Anwar Kemal; Mr. Melhem Khalaf; Mr. Gun Kut; Mr. Dilip
Lahiri; Mr. Pastor Elías Murillo Martínez; Mr. Carlos Manuel Vázquez and Mr. Yeung Kam John
Yeung Sik Yuen.
Switzerland ratified the Convention on 29 November 1994 and made a declaration under article 14 on
19 June 2003.
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