International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Article 43

The members of the Committee, and of the ad hoc conciliation commissions
which may be appointed under article 42, shall be entitled to the
facilities, privileges and immunities of experts on mission for the United
Nations as laid down in the relevant sections of the Convention on the
Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations.

Article 44

The provisions for the implementation of the present Covenant shall apply
without prejudice to the procedures prescribed in the field of human rights
by or under the constituent instruments and the conventions of the United
Nations and of the specialized agencies and shall not prevent the States
Parties to the present Covenant from having recourse to other procedures
for settling a dispute in accordance with general or special international
agreements in force between them.

Article 45

The Committee shall submit to the General Assembly of the United Nations,
through the Economic and Social Council, an annual report on its
activities.

PART V

Article 46

Nothing in the present Covenant shall be interpreted as impairing the
provisions of the Charter of the United Nations and of the Constitutions of
the specialized agencies which define the respective responsibilities of
the various organs of the United Nations and of the specialized agencies in
regard to the matters dealt with in the present Covenant.

Article 47

Nothing in the present Covenant shall be interpreted as impairing the
inherent right of all peoples to enjoy and utilize fully and freely their
natural wealth and resources.

PART VI

Article 48

1. The present Covenant is open for signature by any State Member of the
United Nations or member of any of its specialized agencies, by any State
Party to the Statute of the International Court of Justice , and by any
other State which has been invited by the General Assembly of the United
Nations to become a party to the present Covenant.

2. The present Covenant is subject to ratification. Instruments of
ratification shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United
Nations.

3. The present Covenant shall be open to accession by any State referred to
in paragraph 1 of this article.

4. Accession shall be effected by the deposit of an instrument of accession
with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

5. The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall inform all States
which have signed this Covenant or acceded to it of the deposit of each
instrument of ratification or accession.

Article 49

1. The present Covenant shall enter into force three months after the date
of the deposit with the Secretary-General of the United Nations of the
thirty-fifth instrument of ratification or instrument of accession.

2. For each State ratifying the present Covenant or acceding to it after
the deposit of the thirty-fifth instrument of ratification or instrument of
accession, the present Covenant shall enter into force three months after
the date of the deposit of its own instrument of ratification or instrument
of accession.

Article 50

The provisions of the present Covenant shall extend to all parts of federal
States without any limitations or exceptions.

Article 51

1. Any State Party to the present Covenant may propose an amendment and
file it with the Secretary-General of the United Nations. The
Secretary-General of the United Nations shall thereupon communicate any
proposed amendments to the States Parties to the present Covenant with a
request that they notify him whether they favour a conference of States
Parties for the purpose of considering and voting upon the proposals. In
the event that at least one third of the States Parties favours such a
conference, the Secretary-General shall convene the conference under the
auspices of the United Nations. Any amendment adopted by a majority of the
States Parties present and voting at the conference shall be submitted to
the General Assembly of the United Nations for approval.

2. Amendments shall come into force when they have been approved by the
General Assembly of the United Nations and accepted by a two-thirds
majority of the States Parties to the present Covenant in accordance with
their respective constitutional processes.

3. When amendments come into force, they shall be binding on those States
Parties which have accepted them, other States Parties still being bound by
the provisions of the present Covenant and any earlier amendment which they
have accepted.

Article 52

Irrespective of the notifications made under article 48, paragraph 5, the
Secretary-General of the United Nations shall inform all States referred to
in paragraph 1 of the same article of the following particulars:

(a) Signatures, ratifications and accessions under article 48;

(b) The date of the entry into force of the present Covenant under
article 49 and the date of the entry into force of any amendments
under article 51.

Article 53

1. The present Covenant, of which the Chinese, English, French, Russian and
Spanish texts are equally authentic, shall be deposited in the archives of
the United Nations.

2. The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall transmit certified
copies of the present Covenant to all States referred to in article 48.

IN FAITH WHEREOF the undersigned, being duly authorized thereto by their
respective Governments, have signed the present Covenant, opened for
signature at New York, on the nineteenth day of December, one thousand nine
hundred and sixty-six.

Author: international

Mentioned in these Entries

Charter of the United Nations, Constitutions, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Statute of the International Court of Justice.