TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- EDITOR'S NOTES -- CONTRIBUTORS' AFFILIATION WITH THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE -- PART I: UNITED NATIONS PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE -- United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies and Special Procedures of the Commission on Human Rights - Complementarity or Competition? -- La protección internacional de los derechos humanos y el Comité -- Le Comité des Droits de l'Homme des Nations-Unies - Aux confins d'une juridiction internationale des Droits de l'Homme -- Un Zoulou au Palais Wilson -- PART II: RETROSPECTS AND PROSPECTS OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE -- Solid Foundations -- Problèmes particuliers rencontrés dans les premières années d'activité du Comité -- PART III: ACTIVITIES OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE (1) - GENERAL ISSUES -- The Human Rights Committee's Pronouncements on the Right to an Effective Remedy - an Illustration of the Legal Nature of the Committee's Work under the Optional Protocol -- Los estados de excepción y la protección de los derecho humanos -- Reflections on Article 5 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights -- PART IV: ACTIVITIES OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE (2) -SPECIFIC ISSUES -- La peine de mort et le Pacte international sur les droits civils et politiques -- El Comité de Derechos Humanos y la objeción de conciencia al servicio militar -- Democracy and Liberty as Human Rights -- The Human Rights Committee's General Comment on Article 25 -- The Evolution and Problems of the Jurisprudence of the Human Committee's Views concerning Article 26 -- The Human Rights Committee's Jurisprudence on Article 26 - A Pyrrhic Victory? -- PART V: THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS AND DOMESTIC LAW -- The Domestic Application of the Covenant in Australia.