Dear Fellow Australians, I arrived home tonight to find a letter from the UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, Address: Palais Des Nations, CH-1211 GENEVE 10 Telefax: (41-22)91 9011 Telegrams: UNATIONS,GENEVE Telex: 41 29 62 Telephone: (41-22)-917 9241 Internet: www.unhchr.ch E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The letter reads: "Dear Mr. Wilson, In reply to your letter of 8 September 1999, I have the honour to inform you that Australia is a State party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and as such bound to ensure and guarantee the rights contained in the Covenant to its citizens and other persons under its jurisdiction. Whether or not you can invoke the Covenant rights directly before the Courts and other State authorities is a matter of domestic legislation which I cannot answer. For information, please find enclosed a copy of a brochure explaining the work of the Human Rights Committee, which supervises the implementation of the ICCPR. Yours sincerely, Hamid Graham Officer in charge Support Services Branch." I will attempt to read this out in the Supreme Court of New South Wales tomorrow morning before Chief Justice Wood Yours sincerely, John Wilson. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is the Neither public email list, open for the public and general discussion. To unsubscribe click here Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=unsubscribe To subscribe click here Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=subscribe For information on [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.neither.org/lists/public-list.htm For archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
