CCPR/C/113/D/2000/2010
United Nations
International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights
Distr.: General
5 May 2015
Original: English
Human Rights Committee
Communication No. 2000/2010
Views adopted by the Committee at its 113th session
(16 March–2 April 2015)
Submitted by:
Yuba Kumari Katwal (represented by counsel,
Track Impunity Always–TRIAL)
Alleged victim:
Chakra Bahadur Katwal (the author’s husband)
and the author herself
State party:
Nepal
Date of communication:
27 October 2010 (initial submission)
Document references:
Special Rapporteur’s rule 97 decision,
transmitted to the State party on 8 November
2010 (not issued in document form)
Date of adoption of Views:
1 April 2015
Subject matter:
Enforced disappearance; right to life
Procedural issues:
Exhaustion of domestic remedies
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
Articles of the Covenant:
Articles 2 (3); 6 (1); 7; 9 (1–4); 10 (1); and 16
Article of the Optional Protocol:
Article 5 (2 (b))
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