Open AccessIndividual Communications Against Poland Before the Human Rights Committee: a Review and Tentative Conclusions
Author(s) -
Katarzyna Łasak
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
przegląd prawniczy uniwersytetu im. adama mickiewicza
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2450-0976
pISSN - 2083-9782
DOI - 10.14746/ppuam.2017.7.04
Subject(s) - international covenant on civil and political rights , covenant , human rights , politics , political science , law , civil rights , protocol (science) , international human rights law , right to property , medicine , pathology , alternative medicine
Poland has been a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of 16 December 1966 for forty years, and has been recognizing the right of individuals to submit applications to the Human Rights Committee for 25 years. The total number of communications amounts to 11, and the results of the examination thereof encourage consideration of denouncing the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of 16 December 1966.