Extending the Right to Life Under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: General Comment 36
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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...
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Human Rights Law Review
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© 2019 Oxford University Press. This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Community Development Journal following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Extending the Right to Life Under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: General Comment 36, Human Rights Law Review, Volume 19, Issue 2, June 2019, Pages 347–368 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngz003
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International humanitarian and human rights law
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right to life
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Joseph, SL, Extending the Right to Life Under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: General Comment 36, Human Rights Law Review, 2019, 19 (2), pp. 347-368