General Documents Not Relating To Specific States

General Comments or Recommendations

CCPR

CCPR General Comment 1 (Reporting Obligation)

CCPR General Comment 2 (Reporting Guidelines)

CCPR General Comment 3 (Article 2: Implementation at the national level)

CCPR General Comment 4 (Article 3: Equality between the sexes)

CCPR General Comment 5 (Article 4: Derogation of rights)

CCPR General Comment 6 (Article 6: The right to life)

CCPR General Comment 7 (Article 7: Torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment)

CCPR General Comment 8 (Article 9: Right to liberty and security of persons)

CCPR General Comment 9 (Article 10: Humane treatment of persons deprived of liberty)

CCPR General Comment 10 (Article 19: Freedom of expression)

CCPR General Comment 11 (Article 20: Prohibition of propaganda for war and inciting national, racial or religious hatred)

CCPR General Comment 12 (Article 1: The right to self-determination of peoples)

CCPR General Comment 13 (Article 14: Equality before the courts and the right to a fair and public hearing by an independent court established by law)

CCPR General Comment 14 (Article 6: Nuclear Weapons and the Right to Life)

CCPR General Comment 15 (The position of aliens under the Covenant)

CCPR General Comment 16 (Article 17: The right to respect of privacy, family, home and correspondence, and protection of honour and reputation)

CCPR General Comment 17 (Article 24: Rights of the Child)

CCPR General Comment 18 (Non-discrimination)

CCPR General Comment 19 (Article 23: Protection of the Family, the Right to Marriage and Equality of the Spouses)

CCPR General Comment 20 (Replaces General Comment 7)

CCPR General Comment 21 (Replaces General Comment 9)

CCPR General Comment 22 (Article 18: The Right to Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion)

CCPR General Comment 23 (Article 27: The Rights of Minorities)

CCPR General Comment 24 (Issues relating to reservations made upon ratification or accession to the Covenant or the Optional Protocols thereto, or in relation to declarations under Article 41 of the Covenant)

CCPR General Comment 25 (Article 25: The right to participate in public affairs, voting rights and the right of equal access to public service)

CCPR General Comment 26 (Continuity of Obligations)

CCPR General Comment 27 (Article 12: Freedom of Movement)

CCPR General Comment 28 (Article 3: Equality of Rights Between Men and Women)

CCPR General Comment 29 (Article 4: States of Emergency)

CCPR General Comment 30 (Replaces General Comment 1)

CCPR General Comment 31 (Article 2: The Nature of the General Legal Obligation Imposed on States Parties to the Covenant)

CCPR General Comment 32 (Article 14: Right to equality before courts and tribunals and to fair trial)

CCPR General Comment 33 (The Obligations of States Parties under the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights)

CCPR General Comment 34 (Article 19: Freedoms of Opinion and Expression)

General Comments or Recommendations on Bayefsky.com are as of November 2012. To update use the UN website search engine here.

A treaty body may adopt General Comments or Recommendations, which are official statements adopted by the Committee that elaborate on the meaning of treaty obligations. Some General Comments or Recommendations may be procedural in nature, others may address substantive provisions of the treaty and provide the Committee's interpretation of treaty rights.

CERD and CEDAW refer to these official statements as “General Recommendations” and CED, CRPD, CCPR, CESCR, CAT, CRC and CMW refer to them as “General Comments”.