The ILC Guide to Practice on Reservations to Treaties Put to the Test in the Hossam Ezzat Case Before the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
In 2011 the International Law Commission adopted the Guide to Practice on Reservations to Treaties (Guide on Reservations) to clarify and develop the regime concerning reservations under the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. The report of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Commission) in the Hossam Ezzat case provides an occasion for reflecting on the usefulness of the Guide with regard to some problems having a bearing on human rights treaties.