International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Background Information

Official documents available on-line

Reference document

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
First Optional Protocol to the ICCPR

Interim Report in follow-up to the review of Canada's Fifth Report. Submitted to the UN on December 6, 2006.

Canada's Interim Report
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Review of Canada's Fifth Report by the UN Human Rights Committee. October 17 and 18, 2005

Head of Delegation Statement
Canada's Responses to the List of Issues Presentation of the Fifth Report on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Human Rights Committee, October 2005
Additional Information in Response to Supplemental Questions of the Human Rights Committee on the occasion of its review of Canada's Fifth Report on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: October 17 and 18, 2005
Concluding observations of the UN Committee

Canada's Fifth Report. Submitted to the UN on October 27,2004.

Canada's Fifth Report
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Decisions of the Human Rights Committee on Canadian cases under the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights can be consulted here.

Official documents available in published form

Copies of Canada's previous reports may be ordered free of charge in published form from the Human Rights Program.

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