Extending the Right to Life Under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: General Comment 36

Abstract

The following commentary analyses General Comment 36 on the right to life in Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR),1 which was adopted by the treaty’s monitoring body, the Human Rights Committee (HRC), in October 2018.2 General Comment 36 replaces two earlier General Comments on the right to life: General Comment 6 (1982)3 and General Comment 14 (1984).4 General Comment 6 was typical of the HRC’s earliest General Comments, in that it added little beyond the obvious to the actual text of the...