United Nations Human Rights Committee

The United Nations Human Rights Committee is a treaty body made of 18 experts, created by a 1966 human rights treaty, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). 

The Committee meets for three four-week sessions per year to talk about reports given to the 173 States parties to the ICCPR.Jakob Th. Möller/Alfred de Zayas, The United Nations Human Rights Committee Case Law 1977-2008, N.P.Engel Publishers, Kehl/Strasbourg, 2009,   The Committee is one of ten UN human rights treaty bodies, each responsible for supporting human rights.

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