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Special Decisions or Action Taken Concerning Reporting

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Information for CAT, CEDAW, CESCR and CMW is as of the 2009 annual report; for CCPR is as of volume I of the 2009 annual report; for CERD is as of the 2008 annual report; and for CRC is current to the 2008 biennial report (A/63/41). Additional documents released by the treaty bodies by December 2009 are also included.

This section includes information concerning any special decisions or special action taken regarding a specific state party. This includes:

  1. requests for information
  2. formal decisions
  3. communications sent to states
  4. discussions of whether special decisions or action should be taken.

In the case of CERD, there is a special, formal procedure for urgent action and early warning in which the Committee routinely takes special action with respect to specific states. Summary records of meetings regarding this procedure of CERD are not included in this section, but are reproduced under "Summary Records".