Research Catalog

Title

U.S. ratification of the human rights treaties with or without reservations? / Edited for the International Human Rights Law Group by Richard B. Lillich.

Publication

Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1981.

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Additional Authors

• International Human Rights Law Group (Washington, D.C.)
• Lillich, Richard B.

Description

viii, 203 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Contains views of government and academic experts on the need to ratify two international treaties -- the "International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights" and the "International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights." Includes the proceedings of a 1979 conference sponsored by the International Human Rights Law Group, President Carter's 1978 message to the Senate transmitting four treaties pertaining to human rights and all of the proposed reservations and declarations.

Subject

• Civil rights > United States > Congresses
• Human rights > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 201-202.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

On the necessity of United States ratification of the International Human Rights conventions / Nigel Rodley -- Covenant on Civil and Political Rights / Louis Henkin -- U.S. ratification of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights : with or without qualifications (with comments by Hurst Hannum) / Burns H. Weston -- International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination / Clyde Ferguson -- American Convention on Human Rights / Thomas Buergenthal -- Defense of declarations, reservations, and understandings -- Appendix : President's Message to the Senate transmitting four treaties pertaining to human rights.

ISBN

0813908817

LCCN

^^^80028995^//r902

OCLC

7197746

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library