The United Nations Convention against Torture and its Optional Protocol: A Commentary by Manfred Nowak, Moritz Birk and Giuliana Monina [2nd edn, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2019, 1306pp, ISBN: 978-0-19-884617-8, £262.50 (h/bk)]

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Malcolm Evans
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Optional Protocol ◽  
Convention Against Torture ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Oxford University Press

Art.37 Cooperation between States Parties and the Committee

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gledhill Kris
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Ordinary Meaning ◽  
Optional Protocol ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The United Nations

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) Committee oversees the implementation of the CRPD by its states parties through an assessment of periodic reports and by hearing disputes submitted under the CRPD’s Optional Protocol. Article 37 CRPD contains two distinct obligations: that owed by the signatory states of cooperation with the Committee (article 37(1)), and that of the Committee to bear in mind the need to augment domestic capacities to give effect to the CRPD (article 37(2)). An understanding of the import of this turns on the ‘ordinary meaning’ of the words used ‘in their context’ and bearing in mind their ‘object and purpose’. Accordingly, this chapter examines various relevant features and looks at the practice of the Committee to date in order to suggest the meaning of these obligations.

Art.10 Right to Life

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nizar Smitha
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Right To Life ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Optional Protocol ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right

This chapter examines Article 10 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), which affirms every human being’s right to life. It first explores the efforts made by the drafters of the CRPD to frame the right to life of all human beings. It further examines the wider meaning of the right to life and its application, and traces the interpretation given by the CRPD Committee in its concluding observations. In order to understand the micro-level application of the right, the chapter examines the interpretation and its application by domestic and regional courts. Finally, it explores the individual complaints made under the optional protocol and the consequent interpretation provided. This is done to define the jurisprudence surrounding the right to life and the required measures to strengthen and facilitate its wider application as envisaged under the Convention.

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