Optional Protocols to Pact II: Implementation in Switzerland
Implementation of the First Optional Protocol to Pact II
Switzerland has not, to this day, ratified the First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR-OP1) of 16 December 1966. It gives the Human Rights Committee (HRC) competence to examine individual complaints with regard to alleged violations of the Covenant by States parties to the Protocol. In the Federal Council report planning the 1999-2003 legislation, the will to submit a message for the ratification of this Protocol to the Parliament is clearly stated. However, this objective is not mentioned in the report planning the 2003-2007 legislation.
Text of the (First) Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
From 16 December 1966 (entry info force on 23 March 1976)
The body that monitors the implementation of the ICCPR is the Human Rright Committee.
Second Optional Protocol to Pact II: abolition of death penaly
SR 0.103.22 (AS / RO 1994 2201)
Ratified by Switzerland on 16 July 1994
Entry into force in Switzerland on 16 September 1994
Message on 3 February: BBI FF 1993 I 995/943/787
This treaty could be ratified by Switzerland on 16 June 1994, after the Parliament abolished death penalty in the military penal law.
Texte of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (ICCPR-OP2)
Adopted
on 15 December 1989 (entry into force on 11 July 1991)
