HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE POSTPONES CONSIDERATION OF AFGHANISTAN REPORT
Press Release
HR/CT/447
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE POSTPONES CONSIDERATION OF AFGHANISTAN REPORT
19951030 GENEVA, 27 October (UN Information Service) -- The Human Rights Committee this morning decided to postpone its examination of the second periodic report of Afghanistan until its July 1996 session. The Committee also requested the delegation of Afghanistan to submit to it a written response to the questions on the list of issues to be taken up in connection with the consideration of that report.The head of the Afghan delegation, Ghulam Mhayuddin Draize, Chief of the Human Rights Association of Afghanistan, who was supposed to answer questions from members of the Committee, was unable to come to Geneva. Humayun Tandar, Charge d'affaires at the Permanent Mission of Afghanistan, who was accompanied by Anita Maiwand-Olumi, Second Secretary, encouraged the Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan to give priority to the conditions of women while considering the human rights situation in that country.
A Committee member requested the submission of a report by the Government before July 1996 on the development of the actual situation.
Also this morning, the Committee paid tribute to its former member, Andres Aguilar Mawdsley, who passed away at The Hague last Tuesday, 24 October.
Following its brief public meeting, the Committee continued to examine in private complaints by individuals who alleged that their rights enshrined in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights had been violated.
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