CCPR/C/112/D/2031/2011
United Nations
International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights
Distr.: General
25 November 2014
Original: English
Human Rights Committee
Communication No. 2031/2011
Views adopted by the Committee at its 112th session
(7–31 October 2014)
Submitted by:
Ram Kumar Bhandari (represented by counsel,
Track Impunity Always-TRIAL)
Alleged victim:
The author and Tej Bahadur Bhandari
(his father)
State party:
Nepal
Date of communication:
14 December 2010 (initial submission)
Document references:
Special Rapporteur’s rule 97 decision,
transmitted to the State party on 17 February
2011 (not issued in document form)
Date of adoption of views:
29 October 2014
Subject matter:
Enforced disappearance
Substantive issues:
Right to life; prohibition of torture and cruel and
inhuman treatment; right to liberty and security
of person; respect for the inherent dignity of the
human person; recognition as a person before the
law; and right to an effective remedy
Procedural issues:
Exhaustion of domestic remedies
Articles of the Covenant:
6; 7; 9; 10 and 16, alone and read in conjunction
with article 2, para. 3
Articles of the Optional Protocol:
5, para. 2 (b)
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