Views: Communication No. 1020/2001 (CCPR/C/78/D/1020/2001). State party: Australia

2003

Arrest Detention and Prosecution
Conditions of Detention
Non-State Actors
Pre-Trial Detention
Private Security Providers
Treatment of Prisoners

2003
Arrest and Detention
Australia
UN Human Rights Committee

Key paragraph(s) can be found below the document.

7.2. […] a State party “is not relieved of its obligations under the Covenant when some of its functions a re delegated to other autonomous organs.” The Committee considers that the contracting out to the private commercial sector of core State activities which involve the use of force and the detention of persons does not absolve a State party of its obligations under the Covenant, notably under articles 7 and 10 which are invoked in the instant communication. Consequently, the Committee finds that the State party is accountable under the Covenant and the Optional Protocol of the treatment of inmates in the Port Philip Prison facility run by Group 4.

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