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General Comment No. 36 (2018) on Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, on the Right to Life (H.R. Comm.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2019

Sarah Joseph
Sarah Joseph*
Affiliation:
Professor, Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash University, Melbourne.
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Extract

In October 2018, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) adopted General Comment 36 on Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the guarantee of the right to life.

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International Legal Documents
Information
International Legal Materials , Volume 58 , Issue 4 , August 2019 , pp. 849 - 871
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Copyright © 2019 by The American Society of International Law 

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References

ENDNOTES

1 H.R. Comm., General Comment No. 36 (2018) on Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, on the Right to Life, UN Doc. CCPR/C/GC/36 (Oct. 30, 2018) [hereinafter General Comment 36].

2 Exceptionally, they can concern other issues, such as reservations to the relevant treaty.

3 H.R. Comm., General Comment 6: Article 6 (Right to Life), UN Doc. HRI/GEN/1/Rev.1, at 6 (1982).

4 H.R. Comm., General Comment 14: Article 6 (Right to Life) Nuclear Weapons and the Right to Life, UN Doc. HRI/GEN/1/Rev.1, at 18 (1984).

5 For a more thorough examination of General Comment 36, see Sarah Joseph, Extending the Right to Life Under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: General Comment 36, 19 H.R. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2019).

6 General Comment 36, supra note 1, ¶ 12

7 Christof Heyns (Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions), Rep. on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, UN Doc. A/HRC/26/36, ¶ 59 (Apr. 1, 2014).

8 General Comment 36, supra note 1, ¶ 8.

9 Id.

10 H.R. Comm., Mellet v. Ireland, Comm. No. 2324/2013, UN Doc. CCPR/C/116/D/2324/2013 (2016).

11 General Comment 36, supra note 1, ¶ 9.

12 Id.

13 Id. ¶¶ 3, 26.

14 Id. ¶ 26.

15 Id. ¶ 62.

16 Id. ¶ 34; see also H.R. Comm., Judge v. Canada, Comm. No. 829/1998, UN Doc. CCPR/C/78/D/829/1998 (2003).

17 General Comment 36, supra note 1, ¶ 35.

18 Id. ¶ 41.

19 Id. ¶ 44.

20 Id. ¶ 40.

21 Id. ¶ 43.

22 Id. ¶ 51.

23 Id. ¶ 64.

24 Id.

25 Id. ¶ 63.