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International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Category: Human Security
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights is a United Nations treaty based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Because the Universal Declaration of Human Rights contained both first-generation civil and political rights and second-generation economic, social and cultural rights, it could not garner the international consensus necessary to become a binding treaty. Particularly, a divide developed between democratic nations such as the United States, which emphasized civil and political rights, and socialist or communist nations, which emphasized economic, social and cultural rights. To solve this problem, two binding Covenants were created instead of one, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights being one of them. The Covenant is monitored by the Human Rights Committee.
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