{"id":1900,"date":"1982-10-01T19:36:33","date_gmt":"1982-10-02T01:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/?p=1900"},"modified":"2013-03-05T11:12:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T17:12:56","slug":"book-report-of-the-human-rights-committee-thirty-seventh-session-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/book-report-of-the-human-rights-committee-thirty-seventh-session-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: Report of the Human Rights Committee, Thirty-Seventh Session (1982)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US black political activist Larry Pinkney&#8217;s 1981 United Nations victory was published in\u00a0<em>Report of the Human Rights Committee<\/em>, General Assembly,\u00a0Thirty-Seventh Session,\u00a0Supplement No. 40 (A\/37\/40), United Nations, October 1982, Pages 101-113<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from the report, Page 101:<\/p>\n<p>ANNEX VII<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Views of the Human Rights Committee under article 5 (4) of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights<\/span><\/p>\n<p>concerning<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Communication No. R.7\/27<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Submitted by<\/span>: Larry James Pinkney<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Alleged Victim<\/span>: the author<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">State party concerned<\/span>: Canada<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Date of communication<\/span>: 25 November 1977 (date of initial letter)<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from the report, Page 113:<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>35. The Human Rights Committee, acting under article 5 (4) of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, is of the view that the communication discloses a violation of article 14 \u00a0(3) \u00a0(c) \u00a0and \u00a0(5) \u00a0of the Covenant because the delay in producing the transcripts of the trial for the purpose of the appeal was incompatible with the right to be tried with undue delay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>Larry Pinkney<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<em>is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil\/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his political organizing activities, Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS News Hour, formerly known as The MacNeil\/Lehrer News Hour, and more recently on the nationally syndicated Alex Jones Show. Pinkney is a former university instructor of political science and international relations, and his writings have been published in various places, including The Boston Globe, San Francisco BayView newspaper, Black Commentator, Intrepid Report, Global Research (Canada), LINKE ZEITUNG (Germany), 107 Cowgate (Ireland and Scotland), and Mayihlome News (Azania\/South Africa). He is in the archives of Dr. Huey P. Newton (Stanford University, CA), cofounder of the Black Panther Party. For more about Larry Pinkney see the book,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0887392865\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=blackcommenta-20&amp;link_code=as3&amp;camp=211189&amp;creative=373489&amp;creativeASIN=0887392865\" target=\"_blank\">Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker<\/a>, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.struggle-and-win.net\/13201\/43480.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0to read excerpts from the book.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US black political activist Larry Pinkney&#8217;s 1981 United Nations victory was published in\u00a0Report of the Human Rights Committee, General Assembly,\u00a0Thirty-Seventh Session,\u00a0Supplement No. 40 (A\/37\/40), United Nations, October 1982, Pages 101-113<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from the report, Page 101:<\/p>\n<p>ANNEX VII<\/p>\n<p>Views of the Human Rights Committee under article 5 (4) of the Optional Protocol to the International [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1900"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1911,"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions\/1911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}