...page 2 of your statement. It has a basic recommendation that the United State should have ratified the covenants on civil and political rights and on economic and social rights. You would prefer to call for an official statement by the Government of the United States indicating1...

...such treaties, the American Convention on Human Rights, the Convention on Racial Discrimination, and the UN Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and on Economic and Social and Cultural Rights. Hearings were held in 1979. No single action by this country would do more to...

...international agreements on the international protection of human rights, notably in the International Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and on Economic and Social Rights. These treaties and the resolutions of the xiii United Nations that mention the word "people" have carefully...

...two devils."5 In addition, the government ratified several international human-rights conventions, including the UN Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and on Economic and Social Rights, as well as the UN Convention Against Torture. It also agreed to be bound by the decisions of the Inter-American...

...Declaration of Human Rights. But it had not yet matured into a universally acknowledged legal norm. The Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and on Economic and Social Rights were not opened for signature until 1965, and the development by which their principal provisions were...

...interpreted as "the act of upholding fundamental human rights, such as the core rights declared in the covenants on civil and political rights, and on economic and social rights," 1 and includes also the very specific right of nonrefoulement. The Executive Committee of the High...

...the term "laws of war." While numerous treaties were signed over the next four decades, including the Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and on Economic and Social Rights, the major problem with these and other human rights accords was the absence in the text of any specific...

...took the United Nations to move from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to the more detailed Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and on Economic and Social Rights. However, compared with the failure to produce any detailed human rights treaties in the first half...