A Commentary on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
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A Commentary on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

The UN Human Rights Committee's Monitoring of ICCPR Rights

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eBook - PDF

A Commentary on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

The UN Human Rights Committee's Monitoring of ICCPR Rights

About this book

A new and an essential reference work for any international human rights law academic, student or practitioner, A Commentary on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights spans all substantive rights of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), approached from the perspective of the ICCPR as an integrated, coherent scheme of rights protection. In detailed coverage of the Human Rights Committee's output when monitoring ICCPR compliance, Paul M. Taylor offers extraordinary access to forty years of its Concluding Observations, Views and General Comments organised thematically. This Commentary is a solid and practical introduction to any and all of the civil and political rights in the ICCPR, and a rare resource explaining the requirements for domestic implementation of ICCPR standards. An indispensable research tool for any serious enquirer into the subject, the Commentary speaks to the accomplishments of the ICCPR in striving for universal human rights standards.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Preface
  8. Table of Cases
  9. Table of Treaties
  10. List of Abbreviations
  11. Introduction
  12. Article 1: Self-determination
  13. Article 2: To ‘Respect and to Ensure’ Covenant Rights
  14. Article 3: The Equal Right of Men and Women to the Enjoyment of Covenant Rights
  15. Article 4: Derogation in Times of Officially Proclaimed Public Emergency Threatening the Life of the Nation
  16. Article 5: Bar on Interpreting the Covenant in Abuse of Rights
  17. Article 6: The Right to Life
  18. Article 7: Torture, Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
  19. Article 8: Slavery, Servitude and Forced or Compulsory Labour
  20. Article 9: Liberty and Security
  21. Article 10: Treatment of Those Deprived of Their Liberty
  22. Article 11: Imprisonment for Inability to Fulfil a Contractual Obligation
  23. Article 12: Freedom of Movement of the Person
  24. Article 13: Procedural Safeguards in the Expulsion of Aliens
  25. Article 14: Fair Trial Rights
  26. Article 15: Retroactive Criminal Law
  27. Article 16: Recognition as a Person Before the Law
  28. Article 17: Privacy, Home, Correspondence; Honour and Reputation
  29. Article 18: Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion
  30. Article 19: Freedom of Expression
  31. Article 20: Propaganda for War and Hate Speech
  32. Article 21: Freedom of Assembly
  33. Article 22: Freedom of Association
  34. Article 23: Protection for the Family
  35. Article 24: Protection Required for Children
  36. Article 25: Right to Participate in Public Affairs, Electoral Rights and Access to Public Service
  37. Article 26: Equality before the Law Equal Protection of the Law
  38. Article 27: Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities
  39. Bibliography
  40. List of Concluding Observations (to Reporting States) by Human Rights Committee Sessions
  41. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
  42. Index