CYIL vol. 12 (2021)

jana petrková – zuzana trávníčková CYIL 12 (2021) 2018–2020, 30 common core documents were submitted. 37 The number is relatively modest, but it shows how to improve the situation and help overcome the problem of overdue reports. 3. What do late, and overdue reports tell us about human rights treaties? The data on late and non-reporting may be read from two different perspectives. The first one focuses on State Parties and compares how State Parties fulfill their reporting obligation and/or explains why they do so or not. The second perspective spotlights treaty bodies as addressees of reporting obligation of State Parties. The later perspective enables us to compare states’ approaches to eleven different reporting duties and identify different approaches to compliance with human rights treaties. As Table 3 shows, the number of reports due to particular treaty bodies differs, and also, the structure of delayed reports (sorted by the length of the delay and distinguishing initial and subsequent periodic reports) varies.

Table 3: Overdue initial and periodic reports

Total number of overdue reports (initial and periodic)

Number of reports which are overdue for less than 5 years

Number of reports which are overdue between 5 and 10 years

Number of reports which are overdue for more than 10 years

Number of Initial reports overdue

Number of Periodic reports overdue

CERD CESCR

14 26

82 53 17 72 41 56

96 79 18 74 65 56 40 54 18 55 14

31 37 12 57 36 40

17

48 35

7 3

CCPR

1 2

3 6

CEDAW

11 18

CAT CRC

24

11

0

7

9

CRC-OP-AC CRC-OP-SC

40 54

0 0

3 2

19 22

18 30

CMW CRPD

6

12 11

18 33

0

0 4 0

44 14

18

CED

0

9

5

All treaties 164 Source: Authors, based on late and non-reporting states [View by treaties]. accessed 30 May 2021. The number of overdue reports itself does not provide definite information about the compliance of State Parties with a particular treaty; it must be read in context, represented by the prevalence of the reporting obligation (represented by a number of states who have ratified the treaty or acceded to it), and the duration of the reporting obligation (simplified to the “age” of the treaty). 37 United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner. United Nations Human Rights Report 2020. New York, 2021. 225 344 569 278 127

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