CCPR/C/113/D/2000/2010
Annex
Views of the Human Rights Committee under article 5 (4) of
the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights (113th session)
concerning
Communication No. 2000/2010*
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)
The Human Rights Committee, established under article 28 of the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
Meeting on 1 April 2015,
Having concluded its consideration of communication No. 2000/2010, submitted to
the Human Rights Committee by Yuba Kumari Katwal under the Optional Protocol to the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
Having taken into account all written information made available to it by the author
of the communication and the State party,
Adopts the following:
…
Views under article 5 (4) of the Optional Protocol
1.1
The author of the communication is Yuba Kumari Katwal, a Nepalese national born
in 1961. She submits the communication on her behalf and on behalf of her missing
husband, Chakra Bahadur Katwal, a Nepalese national born in 1953. She claims that Nepal
has violated the rights of her husband under articles 6 (1), 7, 9 (1–4), 10 and 16, alone and
read together with article 2 (3) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
She also claims that Nepal has violated her rights under article 7, alone and read together
with article 2 (3) of the Covenant. The Optional Protocol entered into force for the State
party on 14 August 1991. The author is represented by counsel — Track Impunity Always
(TRIAL).
* The following members of the Committee participated in the consideration of the present
communication: Yadh Ben Achour, Lazhari Bouzid, Sarah Cleveland, Olivier de Frouville, Yuji
Iwasawa, Ivana Jelić, Duncan Muhumuza Laki, Photini Pazartzis, Mauro Politi, Sir Nigel Rodley,
Victor Manuel Rodríguez-Rescia, Fabián Omar Salvioli, Dheerujlall Seetulsingh, Anja Seibert-Fohr,
Yuval Shany, Konstantine Vardzelashvili and Margo Waterval.
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