Inter-State Communications before UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies

The awakening of inter-state communications with the first ever three cases before the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in 2018 has inspired new avenues of research about their potential and shortfalls. This article opens a new line of exploration, considering the mechanism’s potential as an avenue for collective action at a time when many States are responding to violations of international law, even when not directly affected by those violations. Those responses have included massive third-party interventions ( Ukraine v Russia ), and the initiation of proceedings before the icj by States not directly injured ( The Gambia v Myanmar, Canada and the Netherlands v Syrian Arab Republic, South Africa v Israel ). This article argues that enabling collective inter-state communications before UN treaty bodies could strengthen the mechanism as an avenue for treaty compliance and the protection of human rights, and for amplifying sovereign voices as part of peaceful dispute settlement processes

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