Leading cases of the human rights committee

This book provides a representative although non-exhaustive account of the jurisprudence by the Human Rights Committee during the first 30 years of its operation as the monitoring body under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Through 50 leading cases in individual complaints decided by the end of the year 2006 under the Optional Protocol to the Covenant and thematic section introductions that include references to 100 more cases the compilation demonstrates both the...