36. Any measure taken under this principle must be strictly proportionate to the
threat to the rights of others.
37. Some rights also carry with them corresponding duties.113 The Human Rights
Committee has held that any restrictions on rights ‘may not put in jeopardy the
right itself’ and that ‘the relation between the right and the restriction and
between the norm and the exception must not be reversed’.114
113
114
See e.g. Article 19(3) ICCPR; Articles 27-29 ACHPR.
Human Rights Committee, General Comment No.34, CCPR/C/GC/34 (2011), para 21.
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