International Covenants on Human Rights

A/RES/66/148View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 69a Implementation of human rights instruments, published in 2012.

What other versions does this mandate have?

26 versions · 1979–2016

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/70/144

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2016	A/RES/70/144	International Covenants on Human Rights	245	51%Compare
2014	A/RES/68/155	International Covenants on Human Rights	165	76%Compare
2012	A/RES/66/148	International Covenants on Human Rights	140	6%Compare
2010	A/RES/64/152	International Covenants on Human Rights	1,899	76%Compare
2008	A/RES/62/147	International Covenants on Human Rights	2,000	75%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Human Rights Reservations and Declarations Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Treaty Compliance

What’s in this document?

4 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the annual report of the Human Rights Committee submitted to the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session;²

²Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/65/40), vols. I and II.

Also welcomes the reports of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on its forty-second and forty-third sessions³ and on its forty-fourth and forty-fifth sessions;⁴

³Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2010, Supplement No. 2 (E/2010/22).

⁴Ibid., 2011, Supplement No. 2 (E/2011/22).

Invites the Chairs of the Committees to address and engage in an interactive dialogue with the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh and sixty-eighth sessions under the item entitled “Promotion and protection of human rights”, within existing resources;

Requests the Secretary-General to keep the General Assembly informed of the status of the International Covenants on Human Rights⁵ and the Optional Protocols thereto,⁶ including all reservations and declarations, through the United Nations websites.

⁵Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.

⁶See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex, resolution 44/128, annex, and resolution 63/117, annex.

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