Follow-up of the Human Rights Committee on individual communications under the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

2014 ◽  
pp. 503-553
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Optional Protocol ◽  
Civil And Political Rights

The Protection of Human Rights by the Organization of American States

1968 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 889-908 ◽  
Author(s):  
José A. Cabranes
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Bill Of Rights ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Optional Protocol ◽  
American States ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
Civil And Political Rights

On December 16, 1966, the General Assembly approved three agreements designed to establish a global system of enforceable treaty obligations with respect to fundamental human rights. These agreements are the second part of the “international bill of rights” proposed at the San Francisco Conference. Eighteen years separated the adoption of these agreements—the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights—and the approval in 1948 of the first part of the projected United Nations program for the protection of human rights, the non-binding Universal declaration of Human Rights.

Views Adopted by the Committee Under Article 5(4) of the Optional Protocol, Concerning Sanila-aikio v. Finland, Communication No. 2668/2015, and Klemetti Käkkäläjärvi et al., Communication No. 2950/2017 (H.R. Comm'n)

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 302-332
Author(s):  
CJ Iorns Magallanes
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Electoral Roll ◽  
Optional Protocol ◽  
Civil And Political Rights ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Article 5

On November 1 and 2, 2018, the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations (the Committee) adopted views pursuant to Article 5(4) of the Optional Protocol in the cases of Sanila-Aikio v. Finland and Klemetti Käkkäläjärvi et al. In respect of both communications, the Committee considered that the interpretation made by the Finland Supreme Administrative Court (the Court), of who was eligible to be a member of the Sami Parliament's electoral roll, violated Article 25 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (the Covenant), read alone and in conjunction with Article 27, and in light of Article 1.

scholarly journals Le Comité des droits de l'homme des Nations unies

2005 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 533-546
Author(s):  
Gisèle Côté-Harper
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Human Rights Protection ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Optional Protocol ◽  
Civil And Political Rights

In the area of Human Rights, one of the most important events of the last fourty years has been the adoption of the International Pact concerning civil and political rights including the optional Protocol. The author examines the functions that the Pact assigns to the Human Rights Committee and remarks on the major role that this Committee assumes in the area of Human Rights' protection and of the strengths and weaknesses of this organism.

Jamaica Withdraws the Right of Individual Petition under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

1998 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 563-568 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Schiffrin
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Optional Protocol ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
Civil And Political Rights ◽  
The Right ◽  
Roll Back ◽  
Individual Petition

In October 1997, a little-noticed event took place at the United Nations that may roll back the international legal protection of human rights. Jamaica became the first country to denounce the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), and thus withdrew the right of individual petition to the UN Human Rights Committee (Committee). Although it is provided for under the Protocol’s Article 12, no state has previously made such a denunciation.

scholarly journals Individual Communications Against Poland Before the Human Rights Committee: a Review and Tentative Conclusions

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 55-78
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Łasak
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Optional Protocol ◽  
Civil And Political Rights ◽  
The Right

Poland has been a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of 16 December 1966 for forty years, and has been recognizing the right of individuals to submit applications to the Human Rights Committee for 25 years. The total number of communications amounts to 11, and the results of the examination thereof encourage consideration of denouncing the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of 16 December 1966.

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