Reservations of Virtue? Lessons from Trinidad and Tobago's Reservation to the First Optional Protocol

On May 26, 1998, Trinidad and Tobago denounced the First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the American Convention on Human Rights--a regional human rights agreement, which also creates an individual right of petition for citizens of state part...

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Published in:Human rights quarterly 2001-08, Vol.23 (3), p.769-826
Main Author: McGrory, Glenn
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Administration of justice
Capital Punishment
Caribbean
Citizens
Civil rights
Genocide
Human Rights
Human rights policy
International humanitarian law
International Law
Jamaica
Jurisprudence
Law
Law enforcement
Legal aspects
Legal objections
Morality
Multilateralism
Natural rights
Petition
Politics
Prisoners
Privy councils
Reinforcement
Treaties
Trinidad and Tobago
UN Conventions
United Nations
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Summary:On May 26, 1998, Trinidad and Tobago denounced the First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the American Convention on Human Rights--a regional human rights agreement, which also creates an individual right of petition for citizens of state parties. McGrory uses the conflict over the legality of Caribbean states' strategies for resuming capital punishment as a leans through which the international law of reservations may be critically analyzed.
ISSN:0275-0392
1085-794X
1085-794X
DOI:10.1353/hrq.2001.0038