CRPD/C/23/D/60/2019
United Nations
Convention on the Rights
of Persons with Disabilities
Distr.: General
22 October 2020
Original: English
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Views adopted by the Committee under article 5 of
the Optional Protocol, concerning communication
No. 60/2019*, **, ***
Communication submitted by:
N.L. (represented by counsel, Linnea Midtsian)
Alleged victim:
The author
State party:
Sweden
Date of communication:
10 May 2019 (initial submission)
Document references:
Decision taken pursuant to rules 64 and 70 of the
Committee’s rules of procedure, transmitted to
the State party on 21 May 2019 (not issued in
document form)
Date of adoption of Views:
28 August 2020
Subject matter:
Deportation to Iraq
Procedural issues:
Substantiation of claims; admissibility ratione
materiae
Substantive issues:
Right to life; freedom from cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment; discrimination based on
gender; equal recognition before the law
Articles of the Convention:
6, 10, 12 and 15
Articles of the Optional Protocol:
1, 2 (e)
1.1
The author of the communication is N.L., a national of Iraq, born in 1961. Her
application for asylum has been rejected by the State party. She claims that her deportation
to Iraq would constitute a violation of her rights by the State party under articles 6, 10, 12
and 15 of the Convention. The Optional Protocol entered into force for the State party on 14
January 2009. The author is represented by counsel.
* Adopted by the Committee at its twenty-third session (17 August–4 September).
** The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the communication:
Ahmad Alsaif, Danlami Umaru Basharu, Monthian Buntan, Imed Eddine Chaker, Gertrude Oforiwa
Fefoame, Mara Cristina Gabrilli, Amalia Gamio Ríos, Ishikawa Jun, Samuel Njuguna Kabue, Kim Mi
Yeon, László Gábor Lovászy, Robert George Martin, Dmitry Rebrov, Jonas Ruskus, Markus Schefer
and Risnawati Utam.
*** An individual opinion by Committee member László Gábor Lovászy (dissenting) is annexed to the
present Views.
GE.20-13937(E)