General Comment No. 24: Issues Relating to Reservations Made upon Ratification or Accession to the Covenant or the Optional Protocols thereto, or in Relation to Declarations under Article 41 of the Covenant, 4th November 1994 (UN Doc CCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.6)

This headnote focuses on General Comment No. 24: Issues Relating to Reservations Made upon Ratification or Accession to the Covenant or the Optional Protocols thereto, or in Relation to Declarations under Article 41 of the Covenant (‘General Comment’) issued on 11 November 1994 by the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee (HRC), a UN treaty-body established by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (‘Covenant’) (1966). Core Issues 1. The role of the Human Rights Committee in determining whether a reservation is compatible with the object and purpose of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. 2. The severability approach