General Comment definition
Examples of General Comment in a sentence
In interpreting Article 2(3) of the ICCPR, guidance is provided by the Human Rights Committee’s General Comment no.
The Committee explains that State failure to provide remedies to torture victims “enables non-State actors to commit acts impermissible under the Convention with impunity.” Committee Against Torture, General Comment No. 2 ¶ 18, U.N. Doc.
However, rather than 44 Committee ESCR, General Comment 3, supra n.
The United States took a pioneering step in this regard with the adoption of NAGPRA, introducing the ‘cultural affiliation’ prong to allocate rights to (indigenous) cultural objects on the basis of (1) a shared group ident- ity and (2) the (continued) existence of an identifiable indigenous group for 152 General Comment No 21 (n.
This is consistent with the approach of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which states in General Comment No. 3: […] [a] minimum core obligation to ensure the satisfaction of, at the very least, minimum essential levels of each of the rights is incumbent upon every State Party.
Human Rights Committee, General Comment 22, Article 18 (Forty-eighth session, 1993), <https://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/gencomm/hrcom22.htm>.
In May 2016, Canada officially removed its objector status, while the other three objectors have also, to various degrees, changed their vote.151 While it is not binding as a UN General Assembly declaration, the UNDRIP’s strong status follows from the reference to it in General Comment 146 International Law Association, ‘Rights of Indigenous Peoples’, Interim Report (2010) 7.
He only mentioned the 2006 General Comment of the CRC Committee as well as the recommendation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
General Comment 31 of the ICCPR’s Human Rights Committee addressed ‘The Nature of the General Legal Obligation Imposed on States Parties to the Covenant’.
Human Rights Committee, General Comment No. 34, Article 19: Freedoms of Opinion and Expression, 102nd Session, CCPR/C/GC/34, 12 September 2011, para.