Human Rights Committee Report on Israel

As we will discuss this coming week, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the most important human rights treaty, requires each party to submit periodic reports on the country's compliance with its obligations under the treaty. The Human Rights Committee, the institution charged with overseeing compliance with the ICCPR, issues "concluding observations", which are assessments of the state party's reports, and its compliance with its obligations.

The Human Rights Committee this week released a draft of its Concluding Observations on Israel's most recent report. A blog post on the issue is on Just Security, and for those interested there is a link there to the Human Rights Committee's report.

We will examine excerpts from past U.S. periodic reports and the HRC's concluding observations in relation thereto.