I. GENERAL COMMENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

•          ICCPR General Comment 14 (Twenty-third session, 1984): Article 6: Nuclear Weapons and the Right to Life, A/40/40 (1985) 162 at para. 6.

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6. The production, testing, possession, deployment and use of nuclear weapons should be prohibited and recognized as crimes against humanity.

•          ICCPR General Comment 29 (Seventy-second session, 2001): Derogations from provisions of the Covenant during a state of emergency, A/56/40 vol. I (2001) 202 at paras. 12 and 13(d). For text of General Comment, see DEROGATIONS.

•          ICCPR General Comment 31 (Eightieth Session, 2004): Article 2: The Nature of the General Legal Obligation Imposed on States Parties to the Covenant, A/59/40 (2004) 175 at para. 18. For text of General Comment, see EQUALITY AND DISCRIMINATION - GENERAL.