7.2 ICCPR (1966)

The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights — the liberty bundle's treaty (Unit 6.2's catalogue: life, torture's bar, liberty, fair trial, privacy, the freedoms, participation, equality, minorities). The machinery: the Human Rights Committee (18 experts); the periodic reports and the concluding observations; the First Optional Protocol's individual communications (the admissibility rules: the domestic remedies' exhaustion, the victim requirement, no duplication — the views' persuasive jurisprudence); the inter-state complaints (Art 41, rarely used); the Second Optional Protocol (the death penalty's abolition — Nepal a party: the abolition's treaty anchor). The general comments' doctrine (Art 4's derogation law; Art 6's life; Art 25's participation...).