under another procedure of international
investigation or settlement;
(d) It is incompatible with the provisions of the
Covenant;
(e) It is manifestly ill-founded, not sufficiently
substantiated or exclusively based on reports
disseminated by mass media;
(f) It is an abuse of the right to submit a
communication; or when
(g) It is anonymous or not in writing.
Article 2
Communications
1.
ommunications may be submitted by or on behalf
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of individuals or groups of individuals, under the
jurisdiction of a State Party, claiming to be victims of
a violation of any of the economic, social and cultural
rights set forth in the Covenant by that State Party.
Where a communication is submitted on behalf
of individuals or groups of individuals, this shall
be with their consent unless the author can justify
acting on their behalf without such consent.
Article 3
Admissibility
1.
2.
he Committee shall not consider a communication
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unless it has ascertained that all available domestic
remedies have been exhausted. This shall not be
the rule where the application of such remedies is
unreasonably prolonged.
The Committee shall declare a communication
inadmissible when:
(a) It is not submitted within one year after the
exhaustion of domestic remedies, except in cases
where the author can demonstrate that it had
not been possible to submit the communication
within that time limit;
(b) 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;
(c) The same matter has already been examined by
the Committee or has been or is being examined
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Article 4
Communications not revealing a clear
disadvantage
1.
he Committee may, if necessary, decline to consider
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a communication where it does not reveal that the
author has suffered a clear disadvantage, unless the
Committee considers that the communication raises
a serious issue of general importance.
Article 5
Interim measures
1.
2.
t any time after the receipt of a communication
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and before a determination on the merits has been
reached, the Committee may transmit to the State
Party concerned for its urgent consideration a request
that the State Party take such interim measures as
may be necessary in exceptional circumstances to
avoid possible irreparable damage to the victim or
victims of the alleged violations.
Where the Committee exercises its discretion under
paragraph 1 of the present article, this does not imply
a determination on admissibility or on the merits of
the communication.
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