Human Rights Committees Recommendations and their Position Within Slovak Legal Order

Katarína Šmigová

doi:10.47078/2023.2.277-293

Katarína Šmigová Associate Professor of international law at Department of International and European Law at the Faculty of Law, Pan European University; Member of the Central European Professor’s Network https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8821-0667

DOI: https://doi.org/10.47078/2023.2.277-293

Keywords: human rights committees’ recommendations, legally binding acts, Slovak constitution, CEDAW, individual complaints

Abstract

This chapter presents and analyses the position of the Slovak Republic in relation to the decisions of various human rights committees established at the universal level and their processing within the Slovak legal framework. It explains relevant clauses of the Slovak Constitution and compares several different attitudes of selected countries and their particular views on the committees, namely, decisions of the Spanish Supreme Court and the Slovak Supreme and Constitutional Courts.

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