Authoritarian Regimes and Emergency Measures in the UN Human Rights Committee’s 2022–2023 Jurisprudence
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2024
Abstract
The UN Human Rights Committee’s Views (1 January 2022–31 July 2023)—a total of ninety publicly available decisions (Views) issued to states parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)— reflect the Committee’s assessment of emergency and law enforcement measures from authoritarian and semi-authoritarian regimes around the world, in both peacetime situations and armed conflicts. Violent and repressive governmental measures are escalating against civilians, journalists, civil society organizations, religious organizations, and workers’ associations—often justified as emergency measures to enforce public order and respond to alleged terrorist threats. The UN Human Rights Committee found breaches of the ICCPR by states parties in sixty-five of its ninety Views, with only one decision on the merits (View) finding that a state did not violate the ICCPR, twenty-three decisions on the inadmissibility of authors’ communications, and one decision declaring admissibility and not yet in the merits phase. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197795392.003.0034
Recommended Citation
Desierto, Diane A., "Authoritarian Regimes and Emergency Measures in the UN Human Rights Committee’s 2022–2023 Jurisprudence" (2024). Book Chapters. 119.
https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/book_chapters/119
Publication Information
in The Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence 2023: Global Law, Politics, Ethics, Justice 715 (Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo ed., 2024)