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The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) is a multilateral treaty that commits nations to respect the civil and political rights of individuals, including the right to life, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, electoral rights and rights to due process and a fair trial. [3]
It was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 16 December 1966, and entered into force on 23 March 1976. As of July 2024, it had 116 state parties and 35 signatories. [ 1 ] Three of the ratifying states ( Belarus , Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago ) have denounced the protocol.
The Committee's most recent General Comment (of October 30, 2018) was General Comment 36 on ICCPR Article 6, on the right to life (replacing General Comments 6 and 14, of 1982 and 1984, respectively). [46] Of its seventy paragraphs, twenty address capital punishment, in a section headed "The death penalty." One commentator has stated that its ...
It consists of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (adopted in 1948), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR, 1966) with its two Optional Protocols and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR, 1966). The two covenants entered into force in 1976, after a sufficient number of ...
Signatories to the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR: parties in dark green, signatories in light green, non-members in grey. The Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, is a subsidiary agreement to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR, 16 December 1966) International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR, 16 December 1966) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW, 18 December 1979)
Human rights in cyberspace is a relatively new and uncharted area of law. The United Nations Human Rights Council has stated that the freedoms of expression and information under Article 19(2) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights include the freedom to receive and communicate information, ideas and opinions through the Internet.
Defamation of religion resolutions were the subject of debate by the UN from 1999 until 2010. In 2011, members of the UN Human Rights Council found compromise and replaced the "defamation of religions" resolution with Resolution 16/18, which sought to protect people rather than religions and called upon states to take concrete steps to protect religious freedom, prohibit discrimination and ...