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- A Commentary on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- A Commentary on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Table of Cases (Views of the Human Rights Committee)
- Table of Treaties (in chronological order)
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Article 1: Self-determination
- Article 2: To ‘Respect and to Ensure’ Covenant Rights
- Article 3: The Equal Right of Men and Women to the Enjoyment of Covenant Rights
- Article 4: Derogation in Times of Officially Proclaimed Public Emergency Threatening the Life of the Nation
- Article 5: Bar on Interpreting the Covenant in Abuse of Rights
- Article 6: The Right to Life
- Article 7: Torture, Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- Article 8: Slavery, Servitude and Forced or Compulsory Labour
- Article 9: Liberty and Security
- Article 10: Treatment of Those Deprived of Their Liberty
- Article 11: Imprisonment for Inability to Fulfil a Contractual Obligation
- Article 12: Freedom of Movement of the Person
- Article 13: Procedural Safeguards in the Expulsion of Aliens
- Article 14: Fair Trial Rights
- Article 15: Retroactive Criminal Law
- Article 16: Recognition as a Person Before the Law
- Article 17: Privacy, Home, Correspondence; Honour and Reputation
- Article 18: Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion
- Article 19: Freedom of Expression
- Article 20: Propaganda for War and Hate Speech
- Article 21: Freedom of Assembly
- Article 22: Freedom of Association
- Article 23: Protection for the Family
- Article 24: Protection Required for Children
- Article 25: Right to Participate in Public Affairs, Electoral Rights and Access to Public Service
- Article 26: Equality before the Law Equal Protection of the Law
- Article 27: Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities
- Bibliography
- List of Concluding Observations (to Reporting States) by Human Rights Committee Sessions
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Index
Article 17: Privacy, Home, Correspondence; Honour and Reputation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 June 2020
- A Commentary on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- A Commentary on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Table of Cases (Views of the Human Rights Committee)
- Table of Treaties (in chronological order)
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Article 1: Self-determination
- Article 2: To ‘Respect and to Ensure’ Covenant Rights
- Article 3: The Equal Right of Men and Women to the Enjoyment of Covenant Rights
- Article 4: Derogation in Times of Officially Proclaimed Public Emergency Threatening the Life of the Nation
- Article 5: Bar on Interpreting the Covenant in Abuse of Rights
- Article 6: The Right to Life
- Article 7: Torture, Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- Article 8: Slavery, Servitude and Forced or Compulsory Labour
- Article 9: Liberty and Security
- Article 10: Treatment of Those Deprived of Their Liberty
- Article 11: Imprisonment for Inability to Fulfil a Contractual Obligation
- Article 12: Freedom of Movement of the Person
- Article 13: Procedural Safeguards in the Expulsion of Aliens
- Article 14: Fair Trial Rights
- Article 15: Retroactive Criminal Law
- Article 16: Recognition as a Person Before the Law
- Article 17: Privacy, Home, Correspondence; Honour and Reputation
- Article 18: Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion
- Article 19: Freedom of Expression
- Article 20: Propaganda for War and Hate Speech
- Article 21: Freedom of Assembly
- Article 22: Freedom of Association
- Article 23: Protection for the Family
- Article 24: Protection Required for Children
- Article 25: Right to Participate in Public Affairs, Electoral Rights and Access to Public Service
- Article 26: Equality before the Law Equal Protection of the Law
- Article 27: Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities
- Bibliography
- List of Concluding Observations (to Reporting States) by Human Rights Committee Sessions
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Index
Summary
Article 17 is a short but versatile provision, capable of answering a broad diversity of unlawful or arbitrary incursions into privacy, home, family and correspondence, and unlawful attacks on reputation, including many instances which could not have been specifically foreseen by its drafters.
To illustrate the scope of Article 17, among other things, it requires that the storage and use of personal information by the State (including telephone communications, correspondence, DNA and medical records) be confined and suitably safeguarded; it entitles anyone to know what personal data is officially stored about them and to be given the opportunity to correct it; it curbs defamatory statements, even in some circumstances the false attribution of authorship; it puts constraints on intrusive questioning of a rape victim about their sexual history; it protects the home against search, forced entry and demolition, as well as seizure of personal effects; it may be invoked to prevent the breakup of the family by deportation; it supports indicia of self-identity (such as one’s name or gender); and it may be used to resist forcible medical procedures, as well as to secure access to certain medical procedures.
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- A Commentary on the International Covenant on Civil and Political RightsThe UN Human Rights Committee's Monitoring of ICCPR Rights, pp. 458 - 498Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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