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What is a General Comment?

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What is a General Comment?

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Each of the six UN human rights treaty-monitoring bodies, including the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, periodically publishes documents known as General Comments or General Recommendations, which provide guidelines for States Parties on the interpretation of specific aspects of the human rights treaty of concern to the particular committee. General Comments clarify the content of Covenant rights in more detail, may outline potential violations of those rights and offer advice to states parties on how best to comply with their obligations under the treaties. A General Comment is only an interpretive tool and does not, in itself, constitute legally binding ‘hard law’.