International Law Review

International Law Review

The Legal Nature of United Nation Human Rights Committee's General Comments

Document Type : academic

Authors
Seyed Ghasem Zamani 1
Amirhossein Mohebali 2
1 ÷Professor Department of Public and International Law, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Allameh Tabatabaie University ,Tehran ،Iran
2 Ph.D. in International Law, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Allameh Tabataba'i University,
10.22066/cilamag.2023.701612
Abstract
One of the reasons for the special importance of the HRC in the protection and promotion of human rights is due to the mission of this institution to adopt GCs. Despite the fact that the committee is competent to adopt GCs according to Art.40 (4) ICCPR, the legal status of these GCs is always the subject of debate. The GCS, which are an extract of all the knowledge, findings and experiences of the Committee during its mandates, have a legal status in the series of non-exclusive sources of international law, although they are not legally binding. They can be considered as secondary or complementary sources of international law. The main issue of this article was the placement of GCs in the normative hierarchy and sources of international law, their compliance due to their legal status, and subsequently the development and promotion of human rights through the lens of their ratification.
Keywords
Human Rights
Human Rights Committee
General Comments
Sources of International Law
Binding
Legal status

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  • Receive Date 07 December 2022
  • Revise Date 17 January 2023
  • Accept Date 06 February 2023