Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (the “Committee”) ahead of its upcoming review of Indonesia. This submission draws primarily on Human Rights Watch’s research on the situation of people with disabilities at home as well as in faith-healing centers, residential care institutions, and psychiatric hospitals across Indonesia from 2014 to 2020.
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This memorandum provides an overview of Human Rights Watch’s central concerns with respect to the Chinese government’s human rights practices, submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (the “Committee”) in advance of its review of China (Hong Kong) at its 135th session in June/July 2022.
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KENYA: Harmonise legal framework on free expression with ICCPR recommendations
ARTICLE 19 Eastern Africa welcomes the concluding observations of the United Nations Human Rights Committee (the Committee) after Kenya’s fourth periodic review on the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The 131
st Session of the Human Rights Committee reviewed Kenya alongside Finland. The session was held completely online due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Ahead of Kenya’s review, ARTICLE 19 Eastern Africa submitted a report which raised serious concerns on the status of freedom of expression in Kenya. The report highlighted undue limitations in the legal framework for free expression and press freedom, laying out problematic provisions in the Penal Code that are incompatible both with national law and the Covenant. Article 33 of the Constitution of Kenya 2010 gives strong protection to the right to freedom of expression, subject to the exclusions of Arti