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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. [4]
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.
The First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights is an international treaty establishing an individual complaint mechanism for the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). It was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 16 December 1966, and entered into force on 23 March 1976.
As of December 2014, 36 treaties signed by the President were awaiting action by the Senate. [ 2 ] Among the treaties unsigned or unratified by the United States, a few have been singled out by organizations such as Human Rights Watch (2009), as extremely important, and the United States’ reluctance to ratify them problematic. [ 3 ]
Signed and ratified as the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. Belgium: 10 December 1968: 21 April 1983: Belize: 6 September 2000: 9 March 2015: Benin: 12 March 1992: Plurinational State of Bolivia: 12 August 1982: Bosnia and Herzegovina: 1 September 1993: The former Yugoslavia had signed the Covenant on 8 August 1967 and ratified it on 2 ...
Conventions I–IV ratified as the Republic of China which was a signatory in 1956. Macau was declared by China to be covered by its ratification of Conventions I–IV and Protocols I–II from 20 December 1999, [ 13 ] [ 14 ] the same date Portugal renounced their obligations for the territory [ 13 ] following the transfer of sovereignty over ...
Four signatory states—Israel in 2002, [6] the United States on 6 May 2002, [7] [8] Sudan on 26 August 2008, [9] and Russia on 30 November 2016 [10] —have informed the UN Secretary General that they no longer intend to become states parties and, as such, have no legal obligations arising from their signature of the Statute.
Signed on 18 December 1990, it entered into force on 1 July 2003 after the threshold of 20 ratifying States was reached in March 2003. The Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW) monitors implementation of the convention, and is one of the seven UN-linked human rights treaty bodies .