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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1991
INTENTION HE EXPLAINED THAT WHEN IT WAS STILL THE GOVERNMENT'S
WERE THERE TO
SUGGESTIONS INTER-CITIZEN RIGHTS IN THE BILL, RETAIN
THE FLOW OF THAT SUCH A COMMISSION MIGHT ACT AS A FILTER TO STEM
PERCEIVED ROLE INTER-CITIZEN ACTIONS IN THE COURTS, NOTING THAT THE WAS THAT OF ARBITRATION, MEDIATION, INVESTIGATION AND PERHAPS A TO ENFORCE DECISIONS.
ADMINISTRATION
RIGHT
TOOK
SUCH
THE CHIEF SECRETARY POINTED OUT THAT THE THE VIEW THAT IN ORDER TO PERFORM THE ENVISAGED ROLE EFFECTIVELY, A COMMISSION WOULD HAVE TO HAVE POWERS TO PROVIDE EFFECTIVE REMEDIES.
TO PERFORM
ONE BEARING MACHINERY
OF SUCH ***THE
A ESTABLISHMENT
BODY,
IT WERE EFFECTIVELY, WOULD OF COURSE HAVE HAD FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS AND WOULD WISH CAREFULLY TO STUDY THE NATURE OF ITS COMPOSITION, IN MIND ALWAYS THE DESIRABILITY OF ADHERING TO THE TYPE OF RECOGNISED BY OUR PRESENT SYSTEM OF LAW.
THAT
THE
IS
"THESE DIFFICULTIES ASIDE, HOWEVER, THE FACT IS THAT A DECISION HAS BEEN TAKEN TO EXCLUDE INTER-CITIZEN RIGHTS FROM THE BILL, SO
A THE
ESTABLISHING
HUMAN CASE FOR
COMMISSION WITH RIGHTS
ARBITRATION
MEDIATLON OR DECISION MAKING ROLE ENVISAGED CONSIDERABLY WEAKENED.
OR
"I HAVE INDICATED THAT THE PROTECTION OF
FROM
RIGHTS
BY INFRINGEMENT
INDIVIDUALS WILL BE
WHETHER ANY CONSIDERED.
MECHANISM FOR PARTICULAR
DEALING WITH THOSE ISSUES WILL PROVE DESIRABLE SHOULD AWAIT THAT CONSIDERATION," HE SAID.
SIR
PROMOTE LAW AND
DAVID SAID THE COMMITTEE ON THE PROMOTION OF CIVIC EDUCATION HAD IN RECENT YEARS PURSUED AN ACTIVE PROGRAMME TO AS ONE OF ITS MAJOR THEMES PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE RULE OF HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION.
"HOWEVER, THERE WOULD BE BENEFIT
WHICH
THE
OF
IN THE CONCENTRATION
TO UNDER- EXPERTISE IN THIS IMPORTANT AREA, WHICH WOULD SERVE ALSO SCORE
ATTACHES IMPORTANCE
TO THE ADMINISTRATION PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS.
THE
"I CAN CONFIRM THIS AFTERNOON THAT WE ARE NOW CONSIDERING ESTABLISHMENT OF SUCH AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE, HE SAID.
***
THE
THE
NOTING THAT THERE HAD BEEN REFERENCE DURING THE DEBATE TO INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS, AND TO
OF FACT
BILL DID NOT THAT THE
PROVISIONS INCORPORATE
THAT REASONS FOR COVENANT, SIR DAVID POINTED OUT THAT THERE WERE SEVERAL NOT TAKING THAT STEP.
THE
"THE RIGHTS ENSHRINED IN THE ICCPR AND THOSE IN THE ICESCR DIFFERENT IN NATURE AND IT WAS IN RECOGNITION OF THIS DIFFERENCE THE RIGHTS WERE INCLUDED IN TWO SEPARATE COVENANTS.
ARE
THAT
"MANY OF THE RIGHTS IN THE ECONOMIC COVENANT ARE NOT CAPABLE OF PRECISE LEGAL DEFINITION AND STATE PARTIES ARE OBLIGED ONLY TO REALISE THE RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS CONTAINED IN
COVENANT PROGRESSIVELY, ACCORDING TO AVAILABLE RESOURCES," HE SAID.
THAT
/SIR DAVID