CCPR
UNITED
NATIONS
International Covenant
on Civil and Political
Rights
Distr.
GENERAL
CCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.9 **
1 November 1999
Original: ENGLISH
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE
GENERAL COMMENTS ADOPTED BY THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE
UNDER ARTICLE 40, PARAGRAPH 4, OF THE INTERNATIONAL
COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS
Addendum
General Comment No. 27 (67)*
Freedom of movement (article 12)
1.
Liberty of movement is an indispensable condition for the free development of a
person. It interacts with several other rights enshrined in the Covenant, as is often
shown in the Committee’s practice in considering reports from States parties and
communications from individuals. Moreover, the Committee in its General Comment No. 15
(“The position of aliens under the Covenant”, 1986) referred to the special link between
articles 12 and 131.
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* Adopted at the 1783rd meeting (sixty-seventh session), held on 18 October 1999.
** Reissued for technical reasons.
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HRI/GEN/1/Rev. 3, 15 August 1997, p. 20 (para. 8)
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