CÔTE D’IVOIRE

Special Decisions or Action taken Re: Reporting, Including Urgent Action Procedure

CERD A/9618 (1974)

Annex IV

Texts of communications sent through the Secretary-General to States Parties whose representatives did not participate in the consideration by the Committee of their respective reports, submitted in accordance with article 9, paragraph 1, of the convention, at the ninth and tenth sessions of the Committee

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E. Communication to the Governments of Barbados, Bulgaria, Cuba, Democratic Yemen, The Ivory Coast, Mauritius, Nepal and Swaziland e/

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination considered the report submitted by the Government of [Ivory Coast] at its [210^th -211^th] meeting ([tenth] session), held on [19-20 August] 1974, without the benefit of the participation of a representative of the Government of [Ivory Coast].

The views expressed by members of the Committee during the discussion, and the decision adopted by the Committee, may be found in the summary records of the meeting (document CERD/C/SR.[210-211], to be sent as soon as the final version is available) and will also be reflected in the fifth annual report, which will be submitted by the Committee to the General Assembly at its twenty-ninth session.

The Committee hopes that the views and decision in question, as well as the documents included in CERD/C/R.60 and Add.1, will be taken into account by the Government of [Ivory Coast] during the preparation of its next report in accordance with article 9, paragraph 1, of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

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            e/ Adopted at the 215^th meeting, on 22 August 1974.

CERD A/57/18 (2002)

Chapter VII. SUBMISSION OF REPORTS BY STATES PARTIES UNDER ARTICLE 9, PARAGRAPH 1, OF THE CONVENTION

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C. Action taken by the Committee to ensure submission of reports by States parties

497. At its sixtieth and sixty-first sessions, the Committee reviewed the question of delays and non-submission of reports by States parties in accordance with their obligations under article 9 of the Convention.

498. At its forty-second session, the Committee, having emphasized that the delays in reporting by States parties hampered it in monitoring implementation of the Convention, decided that it would continue to proceed with the review of the implementation of the provisions of the Convention by the States parties whose reports were excessively overdue by five years or more. In accordance with a decision taken at its thirty-ninth session, the Committee agreed that this review would be based upon the last reports submitted by the State party concerned and their consideration by the Committee. At its forty-ninth session, the Committee further decided that States parties whose initial reports were excessively overdue by five years or more would also be scheduled for a review of implementation of the provisions of the Convention. The Committee agreed that in the absence of an initial report, the Committee would consider all information submitted by the State party to other organs of the United Nations or, in the absence of such material, reports and information prepared by organs of the United Nations. In practice the Committee also considers relevant information from other sources including from non-governmental organizations, whether it is an initial or periodic report that is seriously overdue. The question of the extent to which conclusions communicated to the State party under the review procedure could be based upon that material remains a matter of ongoing discussion (CERD/C/SR.1463).

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500. Following its sixtieth session, the Committee decided to schedule at its sixty-first session a review of the implementation of the provisions of the Convention in the following States parties whose initial and periodic reports were seriously overdue: Côte d’Ivoire ... Côte d’Ivoire and Ecuador were withdrawn from the list prior to the sixty-first session following the submission of a report...

501. The Committee again requested the Secretary-General to continue sending reminders automatically to those States parties whose reports were overdue.

CERD A/58/18 (2003)

II.        PREVENTION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, INCLUDING EARLY WARNING AND URGENT PROCEDURES

A. Decisions adopted by the Committee at its sixty-second session

Decision 1 (62)

Situation of displaced persons in Côte d’Ivoire

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination,

Concerned that there are many displaced persons in Côte d’Ivoire who are in a precarious humanitarian situation and who might, as a result of the present crisis, be subjected to acts or manifestations of discrimination,

Taking into consideration its general recommendation XXII (49) of 16 August 1996 on refugees and displaced persons,

Taking note of the request by the delegation of Côte d’Ivoire for increased assistance by the international community to be granted to displaced persons,

Urges the Secretary-General of the United Nations to invite the competent United Nations organizations, in their respective fields of competence, to adopt the appropriate humanitarian assistance measures on behalf of the displaced persons in Côte d’Ivoire, particularly measures to help the Government in its efforts to prevent or halt acts of discrimination based on race or ethnic origin.

1582nd meeting
21 March 2001