Human Rights and United States Policy Toward Latin America and The International Bill of Rights: The Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

1983 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 280-281
Author(s):  
R. J. Vincent
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Bill Of Rights ◽  
United States Policy ◽  
Civil And Political Rights

The United States and human rights

1985 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-89
Author(s):  
Christopher Brewin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Bill Of Rights ◽  
Related Concept ◽  
Un General Assembly ◽  
Civil And Political Rights

These excellent books mark the reception in American thinking of the doctrine that economic and social rights (Shue, Brown/Maclean, Hoffmann, Vogelgesang, Falk) are at least as important as the civil and political rights of Henkin's ‘International Bill of Rights’. The English contribution to this literature, the collection of documents edited by Brownlie, makes no distinction between sets of rights; and by reprinting work by Prebisch and Figueres, Brownlie promotes the thesis that development and human rights go together. However, it is worth noticing that all these authors ignore the efforts by the majority of countries in the UN General Assembly and the Commission on Human Rights to assert the related concept of rights to development, notably in GA Resolution 32/130 (1977).

The Protection of Human Rights by the Organization of American States

1968 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 889-908 ◽  
Author(s):  
José A. Cabranes
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Bill Of Rights ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Optional Protocol ◽  
American States ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
Civil And Political Rights

On December 16, 1966, the General Assembly approved three agreements designed to establish a global system of enforceable treaty obligations with respect to fundamental human rights. These agreements are the second part of the “international bill of rights” proposed at the San Francisco Conference. Eighteen years separated the adoption of these agreements—the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights—and the approval in 1948 of the first part of the projected United Nations program for the protection of human rights, the non-binding Universal declaration of Human Rights.

How American International Lawyers Prepared for the San Francisco Bill of Rights

1995 ◽  
Vol 89 (3) ◽  
pp. 540-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis B. Sohn
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Bill Of Rights ◽  
Fundamental Freedoms ◽  
Civil And Political Rights ◽  
The Law

Too much has been written lately about the limited approach to human rights at Dumbarton Oaks, the struggle at the San Francisco Conference, and the great flowering of declarations, conventions, covenants and instruments to implement them in the last fifty years. Instead of adding another retelling of these more than twice-told tales, this essay tries to look at the origin of two less known contributions to the law of human rights—the broad nondiscrimination clause which added a more practical meaning to the vague “human rights and fundamental freedoms” phrase; and the bold addition of economic and social rights to the more traditional civil and political rights.

Human Rights and United States Policy toward Latin America

1982 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 536
Author(s):  
Riordan Roett ◽  
Lars Schoultz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Latin America ◽  
United States Policy
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