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H.Res. 557 (93rd)

Resolution expressing the sense of the House with respect to the proposed ratification by the U.S. Senate of international conventions concerning human rights.

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20 September 1973

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Referred to House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

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Summary

Makes it the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States should give its advice and consent to conventions concerning human rights adopted by the United States, including the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the International Convenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the optional protocol thereto, the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize Convention, the Right To Organize and Collective Bargaining Convention, the Convention Concerning Employment Policy, the Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, the Convention Against Discrimination in Education, and the Inter-American Convention on Human Rights.

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