...: and The American states have constantly demanded in the United Nations the urgent approval of the covenants on civil and political rights and on economic, social, and cultural rights, which will give worldwide application to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights,21 The Fifth Meeting...

...inalienable rights" contained in such instruments as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Covenants on Civil and Political...Rights and on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. On December 6 the US Representative objected to the adoption of the proposed ECOSOC resolution by the...

...consider acceding to the existing international treaties in the field of human rights, in particular the International Covenants on Civil and Political...Rights and on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights adopted on 16 December 1966, and the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading...

...Declaration of Human Rights, which have been further developed and codified and are now embodied in the Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. We reaffirm our commitment to freedom, democratic principles and human rights. We reaffirm our belief...

...discrimination of certain fundamental human rights at the national and international level. "As for the draft Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the United States delegation had long since made it clear that its country would not sign them. "Instead...

...time to get ratified and to bring it into effect. The conventions, as we know at the present time, on civil and political rights and on economic, social, and cultural rights are not in effect. I do not believe, therefore, that we should wait until we have a convention before...

...the administration submit fo: approval the international covenants on civil and political rights ano on economic, social, and cultural rights, which are...important human rights instruments in the world today, anu which are the center of what section 502B means by "internationally recognized human rights." Second,...

...been before the Senate for ratification. We voted in the UN General Assembly for the adoption of the Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Convention on Racial Discrimination. We plan to accede to them and press for their ratification....

...750 by June, cited 12 areas of official Czechoslovak practices in violation of the provisions of the Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights : 83 Free expression. — "Tens of thousands of citizens have been prevented from working in their...

...the context of new treaties. Thus, eg the effect of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on the covenants on civil and political rights and on economic, social and cultural rights adopted by the General Assembly on 1 6 December 1966, or the effect of the declaration on the elimination...