A/HRC/19/58 Recognition of the competence of the CED under articles 31 and 32 Article 31 (individual complaints) Article 32 (inter-State complaints) Yes Yes Ecuador Yes Yes France Yes Yes State Brazil Burkina Faso Chile Cuba Gabon Germany Honduras Iraq Japan Yes Kazakhstan Mali Yes Yes Montenegro Yes Yes Netherlands Yes Yes Serbia Yes Yes Spain Yes Yes Yes Yes Mexico Nigeria Panama Paraguay Senegal Tunisia Uruguay Zambia H. General Comments 48. In 2011, the Working Group finalized the following general comment on the right to recognition as a person before the law in the context of enforced disappearances, which was adopted at its ninety-fifth session: General Comment on the right to recognition as a person before the law in the context of enforced disappearances Preamble The right to recognition as a person before the law is a widely recognized human right at the universal and regional levels, including article 6 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and article 16 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (see also, at the regional level, article XVII of the American Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man, article 3 of the American Convention on Human Rights, and article 5 of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights). 13