Country Profile: Montenegro
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(This profile was last updated on 20th October 2017)
Country Profile Overview: Montenegro
Ratification of Human Rights-related Instruments relevant in the context of climate change
…ratified the following human rights instruments with relevance in the context of climate:
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the ICESCR option protocol
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the ICCPR 1st optional protocol
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the CEDAW optional protocol
- Convention on the Rights of the Child and the CRC 3rd optional protocol
- International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and has accepted individual complaints under its art. 14
- Convention Against Torture and the CAT optional protocol
- Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities and the CRPD optional protocol
- European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
- UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters
For more specific information and references regarding the human rights obligation of this country under international law, please visit http://forestdefender.org/country/Montenegro
Positions in the procedures of the UN Human Rights Council
…sponsored the following Human Rights Council’s resolution(s) on Human Rights and Climate Change:
- HRC Resolution 7/23 (2008)
- HRC Resolution 10/4 (2009)
- HRC Resolution 18/22 (2011)
UPR Universal Periodic Review (see Part 2 of the country profile for any reference mentioned in this section);
… will participate in the UPR in Jan-Feb 2018, with a deadline for submission of information by civil society on 29.06.2017
Climate change as an issue raised during the review of the country by UN Human Rights institutions (see Part 2 of the country profile for any reference mentioned in this section):
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) ,with a pre-session for the committee to consider preliminary information scheduled in 06.08.2018
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
… will be review by the Committee in 14.05.2018
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) … will be review by the Committee in 06.08.2018
Obligations, statements and reports in the context of UN Climate Negotiations
… mentioned human rights in written submission to the UNFCCC in relation to the following issues: the need for human rights safeguards for REDD projects (2014 the need for the rights of indigenous peoples in the context of agriculture (2016)