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Rameka v New Zealand
Rameka v New Zealand was a challenge to New Zealand’s preventive detention regime. It was also the first case where the Human Rights Committee found that New Zealand had breached the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The Committee found that New Zealand had breached article 9(4) of the ICCPR in relation to one of the three authors of the communication. This was because he did not have the power to take proceedings to challenge the lawfulness of his detention. The decision was notable because of the substantial disagreement amongst Committee members. Commentator Claudia Geiringer has noted that Rameka highlights how consensus decision making can lead to “lowest common denominator” outcomes.

International Treaties
Solomon Islands joined the United nations in 1978. It is party to four of the nine core human rights treaties - the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESR), the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD), the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). In May 2011, Solomon Islands issued a standing invitation to the UN Special Procedures.