OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES The States Parties to the present Protocol have agreed as follows: Article 1 A State Party to the present Protocol (“State Party”) recognizes the competence of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (“the Committee”) to receive and consider communications from or on behalf of individuals or groups of individuals subject to its jurisdiction who claim to be victims of a violation by that State Party of the provisions of the Convention. No communication shall be received by the Committee if it concerns a State Party to the Convention that is not a party to the present Protocol. Article 2 The Committee shall consider a communication inadmissible when: The communication is anonymous; The communication constitutes an abuse of the right of submission of such communications or is incompatible with the provisions of the Convention; The same matter has already been examined by the Committee or has been or is being examined under another procedure of international investigation or settlement; All available domestic remedies have not been exhausted. This shall not be the rule where the application of the remedies is unreasonably prolonged or unlikely to bring effective relief; It is manifestly ill-founded or not sufficiently substantiated; or when The facts that are the subject of the communication occurred prior to the entry into force of the present Protocol for the State Party concerned unless those facts continued after that date. Article 3 Subject to the provisions of article 2 of the present Protocol, the Committee bring any communications submitted to it confidentially to the attention of the State Party. Within six months, the receiving State shall submit to the Committee written explanations or statements clarifying the matter and the remedy, if any, that may have been taken by that State.
OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES The States Parties to the present Protocol have agreed as follows: Article 1 A State Party to the present Protocol (“State Party”) recognizes the competence of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (“the Committee”) to receive and consider communications from or on behalf of individuals or groups of individuals subject to its jurisdiction who claim to be victims of a violation by that State Party of the provisions of the Convention. No communication shall be received by the Committee if it concerns a State Party to the Convention that is not a party to the present Protocol. Article 2 The Committee shall consider a communication inadmissible when: The communication is anonymous; The communication constitutes an abuse of the right of submission of such communications or is incompatible with the provisions of the Convention; The same matter has already been examined by the Committee or has been or is being examined under another procedure of international investigation or settlement; All available domestic remedies have not been exhausted. This shall not be the rule where the application of the remedies is unreasonably prolonged or unlikely to bring effective relief; It is manifestly ill-founded or not sufficiently substantiated; or when The facts that are the subject of the communication occurred prior to the entry into force of the present Protocol for the State Party concerned unless those facts continued after that date. Article 3 Subject to the provisions of article 2 of the present Protocol, the Committee bring any communications submitted to it confidentially to the attention of the State Party. Within six months, the receiving State shall submit to the Committee written explanations or statements clarifying the matter and the remedy, if any, that may have been taken by that State.
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