CEDAW/C/76/D/116/2017
United Nations
Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women
Distr.: General
26 August 2020
Original: English
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination
against Women
Views adopted by the Committee under article 7 (3)
of the Optional Protocol, concerning communication
No. 116/2017*,**
Communication submitted by:
S.H. (represented by counsel, TRIAL
International)
Alleged victim:
The author
State party:
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Date of communication:
27 January 2017 (initial submission)
References:
Transmitted to the State party on 10 April 2017
(not issued in document form)
Date of adoption of views:
9 July 2020
Subject matter:
State party’s failure to act with due diligence for
the timely and effective investigation of sexual
violence; the right to fair and adequate
compensation and support
Procedural issues:
Exhaustion of domestic remedies; actio
popularis
Articles of the Convention:
1, 2 (a)–(f), 3, 12, 13 (a) and (b) and 15 (1)
Articles of the Optional Protocol: 2 and 4 (2)
* Adopted by the Committee at its seventy-sixth session (29 June–9 July 2020).
** The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the present
communication: Gladys Acosta Vargas, Hiroko Akizuki, Tamader Al-Rammah, Nicole Ameline,
Gunnar Bergby, Marion Bethel, Louiza Chalal, Esther Eghobamien -Mshelia, Naéla Mohamed
Gabr, Hilary Gbedemah, Nahla Haidar, Rosario G. Manalo, Lia Nadaraia, Aruna Devi Narain,
Ana Peláez Narváez, Bandana Rana, Rhoda Reddock, Elgun Safarov, Wenyan Song, Genoveva
Tisheva, Franceline Toé-Bouda and Aicha Vall Verges.
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