Selected decisions of the Human Rights Committee under the Optional Protocol

In accordance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its optional protocol, adopted by the UN General Assembly, the Human Rights Committee was established in 1976. Its role is to consider applications from individuals who believe that their human rights, as established under the Covenant, have been violated and who have exhausted all relevant national domestic remedies, providing certain conditions of admissibility are met. This report contains selected decisions made by the Committee during its 47th to 55th sessions.