The present report was prepared pursuant to article 5 of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which states that the Committee shall hold closed meetings when examining communications under the Protocol and, after examining a communication, shall forward its suggestions and recommendations, if any, to the State party concerned and to the petitioner. The report is also prepared in line with rule 75, paragraph 7, of the rules of procedure of the Committee, which stipulates that the Special Rapporteur or working group shall report regularly to the Committee on follow-up activities, to ascertain the measures to be taken by States parties to give effect to the Committee’s Views.
The present report sets out the information received by the Special Rapporteur for follow-up on Views between the seventeenth and nineteenth sessions pursuant to the Committee’s rules of procedure, and the analyses and decisions adopted by the Committee during its nineteenth session. The assessment criteria were as follows: