International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

When the UN thought about the right to Self-Determination

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International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

ADOPTED 16 December 1966

BY General Assembly resolution 2200A (XXI)

Here are the countries that ratified this treaty.

Country Status

• State Party (171) Dark Blue

• Signatory (4) Light Blue

• No Action (22) Red

Preamble

The States Parties to the present Covenant,

Considering that, in accordance with the principles proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations, recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,

Recognizing that these rights derive from the inherent dignity of the human person,

Recognizing that, in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the ideal of free human beings enjoying freedom from fear and want can only be achieved if conditions are created whereby

everyone may enjoy his economic, social and cultural rights, as well as his civil and political rights,

Considering the obligation of States under the Charter of the United Nations to promote universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and freedoms,

Realizing that the individual, having duties to other individuals and to the community to which he belongs, is under a responsibility to strive for the promotion and observance of the rights recognized in the present Covenant,

Agree upon the following articles:

PART I

Article 1

1. All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.

LL: consider this in the caste system set up against the unclean or unvaccinated.

LL: consider this in the C40 system where gulags are set up in place of cities.

2. All peoples may, for their own ends, freely dispose of their natural wealth and resources without prejudice to any obligations arising out of international economic co-operation, based upon the principle of mutual benefit, and international law. In no case may a people be deprived of its own means of subsistence.

LL: consider this clause in the De-banking of Conservatives and the Religious Right.

3. The States Parties to the present Covenant, including those having responsibility for the administration of Non-Self-Governing and Trust Territories, shall promote the realization of the right of self-determination, and shall respect that right, in conformity with the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations.

LL: consider this clause in the foisting of the WHO IHR amendments and Pandemic Treaty without the rights of the people determining. Consider this when ‘stakeholders’ are provided say in our world without redress to accountability to we the people.

PART II

Article 2

1. Each State Party to the present Covenant undertakes to take steps, individually and through international assistance and co-operation, especially economic and technical, to the maximum of its available resources, with a view to achieving progressively the full realization of the rights recognized in the present Covenant by all appropriate means, including particularly the adoption of legislative measures.

LL: what legislative measures have been set up in your country. This seems like an important accord (1966 when logic was still possible and post post modernism hadn’t set in).

2. The States Parties to the present Covenant undertake to guarantee that the rights enunciated in the present Covenant will be exercised without discrimination of any kind as to race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

LL: currently we are witnessing that religious rights are being deprived at the UN as subservient to the LGBTQETAL.

LL: it should be obvious that ‘other status’ does include medical vaccinated status. THUS THIS DISCRIMINATION IS PROHIBITTED AB INITIO.

3. Developing countries, with due regard to human rights and their national economy, may determine to what extent they would guarantee the economic rights recognized in the present Covenant to non-nationals.

LL: ECONOMIC rights include the right to bank despite your opinions. The danger now is that these elite will use CBDC (programable digital currency- which can be programmed to disappear if you violate their ‘allowable speech’. CBDC takes cancel culture and gives it a mallet to hit us with. If we do not dress down the prospects of CBDC with our politicians and make this widely known, every time we say something the elites do not like we will be loosing our funds, our bank accounts. Money should never be a tool of tyranny and oppression. CBDC ab initio violates a citizen’s Economic rights. They will use this for the ultimate cancelation. This can obliterate our religious freedom in addition to medical freedoms. How can we protect our children’s world with this prospect before out. The elite have shown how they deal with dissent. they do not tolerate it and do not provide you the right QR code to enter the business, they don’t allow you to support the Trucker movement without closing your account and ceasing your funds. We all need to understand how the Trudeau et al can use CBDC to violate every humane principle.)

Article 3

The States Parties to the present Covenant undertake to ensure the equal right of men and women to the enjoyment of all economic, social and cultural rights set forth in the present Covenant.

ALL ECONOMIC SOCIAL AND CULTURAL. !!! Cancel Culture as enforced by the government through social media, therefore must violate this principle.

Article 4

The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize that, in the enjoyment of those rights provided by the State in conformity with the present Covenant, the State may subject such rights only to such limitations as are determined by law only in so far as this may be compatible with the nature of these rights and solely for the purpose of promoting the general welfare in a democratic society.

LL if you think a mandate is a law it is not. Tyranny drafted and set out is also not a law. In my humble opinion it merely lists words in order. There must be the foundation and rock of morality within the strictures of legal interpretation. That is why for instance a contract to commit murder is void and not enforceable. What about the possibility of a series of laws that purport to silence and censor citizens. Or worse.

Article 5

1. Nothing in the present Covenant may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights or freedoms recognized herein, or at their limitation to a greater extent than is provided for in the present Covenant.

2. No restriction upon or derogation from any of the fundamental human rights recognized or existing in any country in virtue of law, conventions, regulations or custom shall be admitted on the pretext that the present Covenant does not recognize such rights or that it recognizes them to a lesser extent.

LL: so medical or vax passport was not envisioned by this covenant but is nevertheless still prohibited as a basis to restrict social cultural and economic life of individual. For those who have not given this much thought, it is grooming citizens to accustom us to a permissive based existence where we ‘access our rights’ to society based on conformity. this replaces a ‘rights based society’, to an ultimate communism. All are “included” in the ‘inclusivity’ that requires conformity. Equity means that all are entitled to the same material goods - this is abject poverty of socialism and imposition of new feudalism. Diversity does not include any diversity of opinion or expression or protection of religious rights. conformity that provides you a QR code in order to access society is only dangerous when it disagrees with your morality. Therein lies the rub. Many were groomed by the idea of the common good. ‘for our safety.’ If you corner the communications through funding the media, you can convince any number of people what ‘our safety’ requires.

The line in the sand is moving and many will wake up too late when their toes are across the line. The elite have big plans to control society through digital means, and we may lose our homes: a safe place to raise our families in peace. The digital means is the loss of privacy; the imposition of a new morality that divides children from their families; control over the education and the demeaning of religious right to the minority; the insertion of a QR code that proves you conform and the access to cultural social and economic life with said QR Code. Thus all those of faith must understand this digital control, is an attempt at ultimate secularization, communism and tyranny. It will require silence. Moral courage is none too late. We who have it are needed now.

We must absolutely understand the trend: Control the internet; speech; media, employ cancel culture on those who care to stand for their rights, until ultimate digital tyranny through CBDC can be employed.

This violates all freedoms. It will impose even permissive thoughts. These controls must not be allowed.

PART III

Article 6

1. The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right to work, which includes the right of everyone to the opportunity to gain his living by work which he freely chooses or accepts, and will take appropriate steps to safeguard this right.

LL: The economy was decimated through pandemic policies that saw the small businesses suffer and vast amounts of wealth accumulated into the hands of the digital elite. Further those who dissented from the government’s policies found themselves out of work, and banned from utilizing the social safety net, banned from life-saving transplants etc. We created a new class of untouchables. It seems very many provisions of this covenant prohibit the conduct of our governments.

Working to support one’s family provides a sense of pride. Getting a hand out from the state only gives idle hands and resentful hearts.

2. The steps to be taken by a State Party to the present Covenant to achieve the full realization of this right shall include technical and vocational guidance and training programmes, policies and techniques to achieve steady economic, social and cultural development and full and productive employment under conditions safeguarding fundamental political and economic freedoms to the individual.

LL: it would seem that meritocracies advance those best able to fulfill positions. DEI means there are no Shakespears, no Mozarts, and only the same abilities. If we by virtue of equity need to be the same, it is the lowest denominator that applies. All success beyond your peers, will be clawed back by your government, so the result is the lack of incentive to participate in economic, social and cultural development.

Article 7

The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to the enjoyment of just and favourable conditions of work which ensure, in particular:

(a) Remuneration which provides all workers, as a minimum, with:

(i) Fair wages and equal remuneration for work of equal value without distinction of any kind, in particular women being guaranteed conditions of work not inferior to those enjoyed by men, with equal pay for equal work;

LL AND CERTAINLY WITHOUT any QR Code, EU pass, vax pass, and other WHO absurdities.

(ii) A decent living for themselves and their families in accordance with the provisions of the present Covenant;

(b) Safe and healthy working conditions;

(c) Equal opportunity for everyone to be promoted in his employment to an appropriate higher level, subject to no considerations other than those of seniority and competence;

(d ) Rest, leisure and reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay, as well as remuneration for public holidays

Article 8

1. The States Parties to the present Covenant undertake to ensure:

(a) The right of everyone to form trade unions and join the trade union of his choice, subject only to the rules of the organization concerned, for the promotion and protection of his economic and social interests. No restrictions may be placed on the exercise of this right other than those prescribed by law and which are necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security or public order or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others;

LL since public sector unions are stripping democracy with a view to eliminate democracy, the family and capitalism, one wonders if the unions now violate the interest of national security and public order for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others. True North has reported that the NDP and the leftist union members met to discuss their literature that the ‘family perpetuates capitalism’ and therefore must be destroyed. The family unit is on the chopping block. that is why Kamilah Harris says: The children of the community are just that, the children of the community. The aim is to own the children and to destroy the parental authority. THIS IS THE AIM. and must be resisted. Not only will they never LOVE our children like we parents, but the morality they wish impose is no morality at all. Just sexual inclusion without God. Absurd. Athiest parents provide their values; Christian parents their, Muslim parents theirs, Jewish parent theirs and so on and so forth. But the community should not strip parents of their rights. Only criminals should be deprived of parental authority. And crime cannot be defined as our religious God centered beliefs.

(b) The right of trade unions to establish national federations or confederations and the right of the latter to form or join international trade-union organizations;

(c) The right of trade unions to function freely subject to no limitations other than those prescribed by law and which are necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security or public order or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others;

LL it is dangerous for trade unions to espouse communism is a democratic society and this must be rooted out. The current socialism espouses an end to the family unit and like all communists and end to religious beliefs. This is because another Authority more powerful than the state will give dissenting citizens who believe in God, G-D, Allah the courage to stand, where other citizens get in line.

Pastor Pawlowskiwas convicted and now faces 10 years in jail for preaching during covid, feeding the homeless during covid and for ministering to the Truckers standing against tyrannical mandates. (peacefully).

This is the decline of our religious freedoms and an enforcement of . If our Christian leaders continue to be arrested and jailed for child protective opinions, it is silencing not only to Christians but to all those who practice the religion. It is silencing of all God centered belief systems.

Canadian pastor Derek Reimer arrested again for protesting drag queen storytime and faces jail time for expressing his religious belief and child protective beliefs. If the drag queen can express theymself with impugnity, but the Pastor is jailed at the same event for his speech, is speech and religious rights protected. Please show your support for Derek Reimer

(d) The right to strike, provided that it is exercised in conformity with the laws of the particular country.

2. This article shall not prevent the imposition of lawful restrictions on the exercise of these rights by members of the armed forces or of the police or of the administration of the State.

3. Nothing in this article shall authorize States Parties to the International Labour Organisation Convention of 1948 concerning Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize to take legislative measures which would prejudice, or apply the law in such a manner as would prejudice, the guarantees provided for in that Convention.

Article 9

The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to social security, including social insurance.

LL imagine Trudeau deprived the unvaxed from employment through his pulpit of power, and then prevented their access to unemployment insurance. He (through Tam et al) targeted the faithful and prevented religious services while permitting Walmart conflagrations daily. Image he is a tyrant, but do not be like Elon and compare him to Hitler you will be criticized. Image from youtube. I myself prefer comparing him to Mao, who used identity politics to introduce a brutalized communism. He is using gender and racial identity against the population. If his vision wins we decimate the freedoms Canada is based on. Do not let Trudeau win another election.

Article 10

The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize that:

1. The widest possible protection and assistance should be accorded to the family, which is the natural and fundamental group unit of society, particularly for its establishment and while it is responsible for the care and education of dependent children. Marriage must be entered into with the free consent of the intending spouses.

LL: DROP THE MIKE. this means all attacks on the family violate this accord. It is the natural and fundamental group unit of society. And let your commie teachers know: it is the fundamental group unit of society and we as parents are responsible for the CARE AND EDUCATION OF our DEPENDENT CHILDREN. The government will not love and protect our children. Parents will. Our families are important and we are not leaving them for the exploitation through the school systems. I am sorry when I hear that parents hurt their children. This is the exception and not the rule. And the largest protection of a child is to exist in a loving family with two parents.

2. Special protection should be accorded to mothers during a reasonable period before and after childbirth. During such period working mothers should be accorded paid leave or leave with adequate social security benefits.

3. Special measures of protection and assistance should be taken on behalf of all children and young persons without any discrimination for reasons of parentage or other conditions. Children and young persons should be protected from economic and social exploitation.

Their employment in work harmful to their morals or health or dangerous to life or likely to hamper their normal development should be punishable by law. States should also set age limits below which the paid employment of child labour should be prohibited and punishable by law.

LL: what if the formal education system now seeks to introduce early sexualization, topics like gender ideology, bent on sterilization absent parental consent?

is that harmful to their morals or health. Of course it is harmful to remove boys nut sacs. Of course it is harmful to create an environment that vitiates their ability to consent and divide them from their parents. Of course it is harmful to be the adult advocating sterilization absent their parental consent. Of course it is harmful to teach children that their parents religious morality is amoral. IT IS BLOODY DISGUSTING to divide children from their parents and from their own religious upbringing.

so things likely to hamper Children’s normal development or dangerous to life should be punishable by law. They should be protected from social exploitation. Did the transgender minor clinics get this memo.

Adults can consent freely to hacking off their body parts if of sound mind. But how is anybody able to convince others children can so consent divided even from their parents? ONLY through intimidation. Through aggression. Through owning the media. Through cancel culture. Through defining morality.

However there are still those who see clearly and will stand. Whether because of their sense of right and wrong, or because of their belief in a higher power. The more we unite, share our knowledge and our collective power, the more likely we can defeat the visions our leaders are opting for.

We must collectively see the urgency of standing against The Who and the imposition of CBDC. It will be utilized as a tool against the family unit, to divide the people and to silence us. Please use your voice to share this concern. Write all MPs and MPPs. NO CBDC. the central banks can hardly manage inflation. but they do not want to weaponizing the financial system in fact allows them to wipe out THIS financial system and replace it with Digital Programmable Currency. the program will include silence all views that stand against their evil plans to make man their slave . Imagine the hands of the elite with their perversion dipping their hands straight into your accounts so you cannot feed your loved ones. We need to stand and share truth NOW. NOW.

Here is what the elites (WEF, Trudeau and Singh as a Wefers, Shwaab tand Harari their moral leaders et al.) think:

They believe they are gods in a real sense. Please understand who it is we are up against. They are placing themselves as or superior to God, G-D, Allah, the Divine, whatever you name Him. They are coming for those who have a God centered view of the world, and the tools are DEI in our schools, professional bodies and businesses, through digital control, through CBDC, through the lack of privacy, and through creating political prisonner’ by arresting the dissenting. If they prohibit dissent, it is us they are coming for. But those who do not believe in God? They are coming for for us all.

Only it is likely this will be a spiritual war, and the faithful will rise with their voices. These voices must be louder so that all understand what is at stake. This video is 2-3 minutes. But you can research Harari and the WEF.

Article 11

1. The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to an adequate standard of living for himself and his family, including adequate food, clothing and housing, and to the continuous improvement of living conditions. The States Parties will take appropriate steps to ensure the realization of this right, recognizing to this effect the essential importance of international co-operation based on free consent.

2. The States Parties to the present Covenant, recognizing the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger, shall take, individually and through international co-operation, the measures, including specific programmes, which are needed:

(a) To improve methods of production, conservation and distribution of food by making full use of technical and scientific knowledge, by disseminating knowledge of the principles of nutrition and by developing or reforming agrarian systems in such a way as to achieve the most efficient development and utilization of natural resources;

(b) Taking into account the problems of both food-importing and food-exporting countries, to ensure an equitable distribution of world food supplies in relation to need.

Article 12

1. The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.

LL: It is not possible to have an oppressive government vacating the Freedoms that our western countries were based on (freedom of speech and religion are visibly under attack) and be in the highest possible standard of physical and mental health. It is not possible to censor dissent and have this; or mandate poisons in our body and have this. We will no longer stand for this. Truth must be shared and our voices brought. Our collective is larger.

2. The steps to be taken by the States Parties to the present Covenant to achieve the full realization of this right shall include those necessary for:

(a) The provision for the reduction of the stillbirth-rate and of infant mortality and for the healthy development of the child;

LL: tell me where the studies are on the recent increase in maternal reproductive issues, miscarriages and still birth rates.

(b) The improvement of all aspects of environmental and industrial hygiene;

(c) The prevention, treatment and control of epidemic, endemic, occupational and other diseases;

LL treatment includes ivermectin. SAY IT. PREVENTION should not be an opportunity to cull the population.

LL: prevention should not include changing the definition of vaccination to a non-inoculating device. If it does not prevent acquiring or sharing the disease they should fob off with their lies. repeating lies does not make it so. It makes it an oft repeated lie. We are seeing the pattern in all their words. Repeating the words that mean the opposite. Hate. Affirm. Love. Inclusive. Diversity. Equity.

(d) The creation of conditions which would assure to all medical service and medical attention in the event of sickness.

LL Canadian judges should be reminded of this as they restrict the unvacccinated from obtaining organ transplants. The middle of the pack is moving. We are seeing what the governments have in store.

Article 13

1. The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to education. They agree that education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and the sense of its dignity, and shall strengthen the respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. They further agree that education shall enable all persons to participate effectively in a free society, promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations and all racial, ethnic or religious groups, and further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.

LL; EDUCATION IS SUPPOSED TO PROMOTE TOLERANCE OF RELIGION. DO WE SEE THAT BEING VIOLATED NOW? Absolutely.

2. The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize that, with a view to achieving the full realization of this right:

(a) Primary education shall be compulsory and available free to all;

(b) Secondary education in its different forms, including technical and vocational secondary education, shall be made generally available and accessible to all by every appropriate means, and in particular by the progressive introduction of free education;

(c) Higher education shall be made equally accessible to all, on the basis of capacity, by every appropriate means, and in particular by the progressive introduction of free education;

capacity is that meritocracy? Do you want your doctors to be of the utmost capacity. I should think so.

(d) Fundamental education shall be encouraged or intensified as far as possible for those persons who have not received or completed the whole period of their primary education;

(e) The development of a system of schools at all levels shall be actively pursued, an adequate fellowship system shall be established, and the material conditions of teaching staff shall be continuously improved.

LL: it is reported by True North that DEI consultants are terrorizing school principals to the point of suicide in Canada.

3. The States Parties to the present Covenant undertake to have respect for the liberty of parents and, when applicable, legal guardians to choose for their children schools, other than those established by the public authorities, which conform to such minimum educational standards as may be laid down or approved by the State and to ensure the religious and moral education of their children in conformity with their own convictions.

LL: Drop the Mike. We live in signatory and ratified states. THEREFORE OUR RIGHTS ARE BEING VIOLATED AS PARENTS. I lay this out. I care for the future we will have. We are the moral leaders. We are. When good men (or women) do nothing when they see wrongs they enable evil to thrive. No longer possible. We will stand for the weakest in our society. Our children. And doing so is a protected right in this covenant. It makes sound and imminent sense. I am glad to have YOU DEAR READER, AS MY ALLY. I love and bless your day as you seek to make our world right.

4. No part of this article shall be construed so as to interfere with the liberty of individuals and bodies to establish and direct educational institutions, subject always to the observance of the principles set forth in paragraph I of this article and to the requirement that the education given in such institutions shall conform to such minimum standards as may be laid down by the State.

LL the state cannot however violate religious freedoms in their minimum standards.

Article 14

Each State Party to the present Covenant which, at the time of becoming a Party, has not been able to secure in its metropolitan territory or other territories under its jurisdiction compulsory primary education, free of charge, undertakes, within two years, to work out and adopt a detailed plan of action for the progressive implementation, within a reasonable number of years, to be fixed in the plan, of the principle of compulsory education free of charge for all.

Article 15

1. The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone:

(a) To take part in cultural life;

(b) To enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications;

(c) To benefit from the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.

2. The steps to be taken by the States Parties to the present Covenant to achieve the full realization of this right shall include those necessary for the conservation, the development and the diffusion of science and culture.

3. The States Parties to the present Covenant undertake to respect the freedom indispensable for scientific research and creative activity.

4. The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the benefits to be derived from the encouragement and development of international contacts and co-operation in the scientific and cultural fields.

PART IV

Article 16

1. The States Parties to the present Covenant undertake to submit in conformity with this part of the Covenant reports on the measures which they have adopted and the progress made in achieving the observance of the rights recognized herein.

2.

(a) All reports shall be submitted to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies to the Economic and Social Council for consideration in accordance with the provisions of the present Covenant;

(b) The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall also transmit to the specialized agencies copies of the reports, or any relevant parts therefrom, from States Parties to the present Covenant which are also members of these specialized agencies in so far as these reports, or parts therefrom, relate to any matters which fall within the responsibilities of the said agencies in accordance with their constitutional instruments.

Article 17

1. The States Parties to the present Covenant shall furnish their reports in stages, in accordance with a programme to be established by the Economic and Social Council within one year of the entry into force of the present Covenant after consultation with the States Parties and the specialized agencies concerned.

2. Reports may indicate factors and difficulties affecting the degree of fulfilment of obligations under the present Covenant.

3. Where relevant information has previously been furnished to the United Nations or to any specialized agency by any State Party to the present Covenant, it will not be necessary to reproduce that information, but a precise reference to the information so furnished will suffice.

Article 18

Pursuant to its responsibilities under the Charter of the United Nations in the field of human rights and fundamental freedoms, the Economic and Social Council may make arrangements with the specialized agencies in respect of their reporting to it on the progress made in achieving the observance of the provisions of the present Covenant falling within the scope of their activities. These reports may include particulars of decisions and recommendations on such implementation adopted by their competent organs.

LL: Canada is violating these covenants. The US is violating these covenants. How about your country?

Article 19

The Economic and Social Council may transmit to the Commission on Human Rights for study and general recommendation or, as appropriate, for information the reports concerning human rights submitted by States in accordance with articles 16 and 17, and those concerning human rights submitted by the specialized agencies in accordance with article 18.

Article 20

The States Parties to the present Covenant and the specialized agencies concerned may submit comments to the Economic and Social Council on any general recommendation under article 19 or reference to such general recommendation in any report of the Commission on Human Rights or any documentation referred to therein.

Article 21

The Economic and Social Council may submit from time to time to the General Assembly reports with recommendations of a general nature and a summary of the information received from the States Parties to the present Covenant and the specialized agencies on the measures taken and the progress made in achieving general observance of the rights recognized in the present Covenant.

Article 22

The Economic and Social Council may bring to the attention of other organs of the United Nations, their subsidiary organs and specialized agencies concerned with furnishing technical assistance any matters arising out of the reports referred to in this part of the present Covenant which may assist such bodies in deciding, each within its field of competence, on the advisability of international measures likely to contribute to the effective progressive implementation of the present Covenant.

Article 23

The States Parties to the present Covenant agree that international action for the achievement of the rights recognized in the present Covenant includes such methods as the conclusion of conventions, the adoption of recommendations, the furnishing of technical assistance and the holding of regional meetings and technical meetings for the purpose of consultation and study organized in conjunction with the Governments concerned.

Article 24

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 25

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 V

Article 26

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 the present Covenant or acceded to it of the deposit of each instrument of ratification or accession.

Article 27

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 28

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

Article 29

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 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 30

Irrespective of the notifications made under article 26, paragraph 5, the Secretary-General of the United Nations shall inform all States referred to in paragraph I of the same article of the following particulars:

(a) Signatures, ratifications and accessions under article 26;

(b) The date of the entry into force of the present Covenant under article 27 and the date of the entry into force of any amendments under article 29.

Article 31

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 26.

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