Sentence examples for under the iccpr from inspiring English sources
It is expected that participating states will implement their obligations under the ICCPR.
While indefinite administrative detention is legal under Australian law, it is incompatible with Australia's international treaty obligations under the ICCPR, the committee ruled.
The United Nations Human Rights Committee found the United States to be in noncompliance with its obligations under the ICCPR due to the excessive number of offenses subject to the death penalty and the number of death sentences imposed.
The Commission found that the failure by the Commonwealth was a violation of the right not to be detained arbitrarily under Article 9 of the ICCPR, a provision in the spirit of Magna Carta.
She, along with other collaborators, has been actively involved in promoting migrant workers' rights as human rights before the UN Committee on Migrant Workers, in proceedings under the NAALC, in "shadow" reports on US compliance with the ICCPR and the CERD, and on the UN Special Rapporteur's visit to the United States in summer 2007.
The government has also argued with the UN's interpretation of the ICCPR, claiming that "lawfulness" does not mean "lawful under international law" or that arbitrary detention is not lawful.
He also highlighted the fact that both the ICCPR and elements of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination – both of which have been ratified by the UK and other European countries – had sprung from a desire to avoid a repetition of the Holocaust.
Although the Covenants were adopted at the same time, unlike the ICCPR, the ICESCR was not accompanied by an Optional Protocol providing the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights with a mandate and jurisdiction to hear individual complaints against states for alleged violations of human rights obligations.
Additionally, the US respects the provisions of the ICCPR almost better than any other country.
