Title:
The International Bill of Rights : the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights / Louis Henkin, editor.
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Main Entry:
Henkin, Louis.
Publisher:
Columbia University Press,
Publication Date:
1981.
Publication Place:
New York :
ISBN:
0231051808 :
Subject:
Human rights.
Contents:
The development of the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights / Vratislav Pechota -- To respect and to ensure, state obligations and permissible derogations / Thomas Buergenthal -- The self-determination of peoples / Antonio Cassese -- The right to life, physical integrity, and liberty / Yoram Dinstein -- Due process of law for persons accused of crime / Haji N.A. Noor Muhammad -- The freedom of movement / Stig Jagerskiold -- Legal personality, privacy, and the family / Fernando Volio -- Freedom of conscience and expression, and political freedoms / Karl Josef Partsch -- Equality and nondiscrimination / B.G. Ramcharan -- The rights of minorities / Louis B. Sohn -- Permissible limitations on rights / Alexandre Charles Kiss -- The obligation to implement the Covenant in domestic law / Oscar Schachter -- The implementation system / A.H. Robertson.
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