Annex 1

Section H: INDIVIDUAL COMMUNICATIONS

87.	Communications Under the Optional Protocol to the CCPR

88.	Communications Under CAT

89.	Communications Under CERD

90.	Communications Under the Optional Protocol: Categorization of Decisions Within Each Regional Group

91.	Communications Under the Optional Protocol: Comparison of Decisions Across Regional Groups

92.	Number of "Living Cases" at the Human Rights Committee

93.	Number of Communications Dealt With/Decisions Taken in the 2000 Annual Report Year

94.	Individual Communications Under the Optional Protocol to CCPR

95.	Individual Communications Under the Convention Against Torture

96.	Individual Communications Under CERD, Article 14

97.	Caseload of the Human Rights Committee

98.	Caseload of the Human Rights Committee - Registered Communications

99.	Caseload of the Human Rights Committee - Pre-admissible Communications (Cumulative)

100.	Caseload of the Human Rights Committee - Admissible Communications (Cumulative)

101.	Caseload of the Human Rights Committee - Inadmissible Communications

102.	Caseload of the Human Rights Committee - Discontinued Communications

103.	Caseload of the Human Rights Committee - Final Views Communications

104.	Average Annual Time Difference Between Initial Submission and Inadmissibility Decisions for Human Rights Committee Individual Communications

105.	Average Annual Time Difference Between Initial Submission and Final Views for Human Rights Committee Individual Communications

106.	Caseload of CAT

107.	Caseload of CAT - Registered Communications

108.	Caseload of CAT - Admissible Communications

109.	Caseload of CAT - Inadmissible Communications

110.	Caseload of CAT - Discontinued Communications

111.	Caseload of CAT - Final Views Communications

112.	Average Annual Time Difference Between Initial Submission and Inadmissibility Decisions for CAT Individual Communications

113.	Average Annual Time Difference Between Initial Submission and Final Views for CAT Individual Communications

114.	Caseload of CERD (table)

115.	Caseload of CERD (graph)

Communications Under the Optional Protocol to the CCPR

15 November 2000

1.	Percentage Decisions Inadmissible: 43% (288 out of 669)

2.	Percentage Decisions Admissible: 57% (381 out of 669)

3.	Of those cases where Final Views Adopted (354)

Violations: 76.3% (270 out of 354)

No Violations: 23.7% (84 out of 354)

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Communications Under CAT

12 October 2000

1.	Percentage of Decisions Inadmissible: 42.7% (35 out of 82)

2.	Percentage of Decisions Admissible: 57.3% (47 out of 82)

3.	Of those cases where Final Views adopted (45)

Violations: 40% (18 out of 45)

No Violations: 60% (27 out of 45)

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Communications Under CERD

10 January 2001

1.	Percentage of Decisions Inadmissible: 26.7% (4 out of 15)

2.	Percentage of Decisions Admissible: 73.3% (11 out of 15)

3.	Of those cases where Final Views adopted (10):

Violations: 60% (6 out of 10)

No Violations: 40% (4 out of 10)

Communications Under the Optional Protocol:

Categorization of Decisions Within Each Regional Group

15 November 2000

African Group	Asian Group	Eastern European Group	Latin American & Caribbean Group	Western European & Other Group
Admissible (pending plus those with Final Views)

34 (82.9%)

5 (100%)

22 (61.1%)

228 (74.0%)

92 (33.0%)

Inadmissible

7 (17.1%)

0

14 (38.9%)

80 (26.0%)

187(67.0%)

African Group	Asian Group	Eastern European Group	Latin American & Caribbean Group	Western European & Other Group
Final Views -

Violation

32(100%)

3 (60.0%)

10 (76.9%)

192 (89.7%)

33 (36.7%)
Final Views -

No Violation

0

2 (40.0%)

3 (23.1%)

22 (10.3%)

57 (63.3%)

* Percentage figures are within each regional group. For example, 82.9% of cases from African states are found to be admissible, not 81% of admissible cases come from African states.

Communications Under the Optional Protocol:

Comparison of Decisions Across Regional Groups

15 November 2000

African Group	Asian Group	Eastern European Group	Latin American & Caribbean Group	Western European & Other Group	Total
Pre-
admissible Cases

15 (10.1%)

15 (10.1%)

38 (25.7%)

27 (18.2%)

53 (35.8%)

148
Admissible (but not yet decided by Final Views)

2 (7.4%)

0

9 (33.3%)

14 (51.9%)

2 (7.4%)

27

Inadmissible

7 (2.4%)

0

14 (4.9%)

80 (27.8%)

187(64.9%)

288

Discontinued

6 (4.4%)

2 (1.5%)

4 (2.9%)

73 (53.3%)

52 (37.9%)

137
Final Views -

Violation

32 (11.9%)

3 (1.1%)

10 (3.7%)

192 (71.1%)

33 (12.2%)

270
Final Views -

No Violation

0

2 (2.4%)

3 (3.6%)

22 (26.2%)

57 (67.8%)

84

Total

62 (6.5%)

22 (2.3%)

78 (8.2%)

408 (42.8%)

384(40.2%)

954

* Percentage figures are within each category of pre-admissible, admissible, inadmissible, discontinued, final views - violation, final views - no violation, and total. They are not derived within each regional group. For example, 10.1% of pre-admissible cases come from African states, not 10.1% of African cases are at the pre-
admissible stage. Percentages may not total exactly 100%, due to the rounding of decimals.

Number of "Living Cases" at the Human Rights Committee

14 April 2000

Pre-admissible cases (not yet transmitted to the government for comments)	127
Transmitted to the government for response on admissibility and/or merits	16
Ready for decision (either on admissibility alone or on admissibility and merits)	34
TOTAL:	177

Number of Communications Dealt With/Decisions Taken in the

2000 Annual Report Year

Human Rights Committee

Inadmissible	Discontinued	Admissible	Final Views	Total
November session	7	1	5	13
March session	5	1	6	12
July session	4	5	7	16
TOTAL	16	5	2	18	41

Committee Against Torture

Inadmissible	Discontinued	Admissible	Final Views	Total
April session	2	5	7	14
November session	4	1	1	5	11
TOTAL	6	6	1	12	25

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Inadmissible	Final Views	Total
March session	2	2
August session	1	1	2
TOTAL	1	3	4

Individual Communications Under the Optional Protocol to CCPR

15 November 2000

States that have never been the subject of a communication: 30/95 = 31.6%*

1.	Algeria

2.	Armenia

3.	Benin

4.	Bosnia & Herzegovina

5.	Burkina Faso

6.	Cape Verde

7.	Chad

8.	Congo

9.	El Salvador

10.	Estonia

11.	Gambia

12.	Guinea

13.	Kyrgyzstan

14.	Liechtenstein

15.	Luxembourg

16.	Macedonia (Former Yugoslav Republic of)

17.	Malawi

18.	Malta

19.	Mongolia

20.	Nepal

21.	Niger

22.	Paraguay

23.	Romania

24.	San Marino

25.	Seychelles

26.	Slovenia

27.	Somalia

28.	Tajikistan

29.	Turkmenistan

30.	Uganda

* in addition to the current 95 States parties to the Optional Protocol, the states of Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago both ratified the Optional Protocol and then later submitted notifications of denunciation, which became effective on 23 January 1998 and 27 June 2000 respectively.

Individual Communications Under the Convention Against Torture

12 October 2000

States that have never been the subject of a communication: 24/43 = 55.8%

1.	Algeria

2.	Belgium

3.	Bulgaria

4.	Cameroon

5.	Croatia

6.	Cyprus

7.	Czech Republic

8.	Finland

9.	Ghana

10.	Iceland

11.	Italy

12.	Liechtenstein

13.	Luxembourg

14.	Malta

15.	Monaco

16.	New Zealand

17.	Poland

18.	Portugal

19.	Senegal

20.	Slovakia

21.	Slovenia

22.	South Africa

23.	Togo

24.	Uruguay

Individual Communications Under CERD, Article 14

10 January 2001

States that have never been the subject of a communication: 25/32 = 78.1%

1.	Algeria

2.	Belgium

3.	Bulgaria

4.	Chile

5.	Costa Rica

6.	Cyprus

7.	Czech Republic

8.	Ecuador

9.	Finland

10.	Hungary

11.	Iceland

12.	Italy

13.	Luxembourg

14.	Macedonia (Former Yugoslav Republic of)

15.	Malta

16.	Peru

17.	Poland

18.	Portugal

19.	Republic of Korea

20.	Russian Federation

21.	Senegal

22.	South Africa

23.	Spain

24.	Ukraine

25.	Uruguay

Caseload of the Human Rights Committee

Annual Report Years – July

Year 1	Registered	Pre-admissible 2 (cumulativ
e)	Admissible 3 (cumulati
ve)	Inadmissible	Discontinued	Final Views
2000	63	145	28	16	5	18
1999	50	111	38	22	5	35
1998	58	115	46	3	9	30
1997	49	100	45	18	0	24
1996	80	96	42	11	7	31
1995	49	68	39	12	14	15
1994	35	68	31	30	7	32
1993	38	94	39	16	7	23
1992	46	92	49	31	10	19
1991	50	109	46	16	6	9
1990	47	103	33	23	5	14
1989	55	98	33	14	5	11
1988	80	84	22	13	2	8
1987	25	34	15	3	1	5
1986	22	21	12	5	9	4
1985	15	16	13	10	10	12
1984	27	25	n/a 4	3	7	7
1983	23	22	12	8	13	17
1982	22	31	21	5	1	13
1981	30	36	23	6	2	12
1980	19	12	27	3	3	6
1979	13	28	20	8	4	1
1978	n/a	25	7	5	2	0
1977	n/a	n/a	n/a	2	0	0
Total	936	n/a	n/a	283	134	346

1 End of July session annually.	3 Declared admissible, but not yet concluded.

2 Pending admissibility decision.	4 n/a where an annual report does not contain the relevant information.

Caseload of CAT

Annual Report Years - May

Year	Registered1	Admissible1	Inadmissible	Discontinued2	Final Views
2000	n/a	1	6	6	12
1999	n/a	4	3	18	11
1998	19	5	7	4	9
1997	12	n/a	1	6	6
1996	17	2	6	4	3
1995	10	n/a	6	3	2
1994	2	1	1	1	2
1993	1	0	0	0	0
1992	2	1	1	0	0
1991	3	0	2	0	0
1990	0	0	3	0	0
1989	3	0	0	0	0
1988	0	0	0	0	0
Total	36	42	45

1 n/a where annual report does not contain the relevant information.

2 Discontinued includes suspended communications.

Caseload of CERD

Annual Report Years - August

Registered	Admissible	Inadmissible	Final Views
2000	n/a	0	1	3
1999	n/a	0	0	3
1998	0	3	1	0
1997	2	2	1	0
1996	1	0	0	0
1995	2	0	1	0
1994	1	0	0	1
1993	0	1	0	1
1992	2	0	0	0
1991	0	0	0	1
1990	0	0	0	0
1989	1	0	0	0
1988	0	0	0	1
1987	0	1	0	0
1986	0	0	0	0
1985	0	0	0	0
1984	1	0	0	0
Total	7	4	10

Figures for communications registered in 1999 and 2000 are unavailable.