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International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Volume 690: debated on Tuesday 13 March 2007

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Lord Lester of Herne Hill

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether any member state of the European Union, other than the United Kingdom, has failed to accept the First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights enabling individual complaints to be made of alleged breaches of covenant rights and freedoms. [HL2303]

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs
(Baroness Ashton of Upholland)

The United Kingdom is the only member of the European Union not to have signed the First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.