Common Contracts
1 similar International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights contracts
International Covenant on Civil and Political RightsInternational Covenant on Civil and Political Rights • January 28th, 2007
Even before the adoption of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (a non-legally binding document) in 1948, broad agreement existed that the rights which were to be enshrined in the Declaration were to be transformed into legally binding obligations through the negotiation of one or more treaties. In 1966, two separate treaties, covering almost entirely all the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, were adopted after approximately 20 years of negotiations: one for civil and political rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR); and one for economic, social and cultural rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). The ICCPR1 was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 16 December 1966 and entered into force on 23 March 1976.2
