United States · Resolution · HRES
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.
Introduced
20 September 1973
Last action
—
Status
Referred to House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Sponsors
—
Subjects
Discovery layer
Source updated
1 August 2024
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.
This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.
Timeline
No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.
Votes
No vote records are attached yet.
Versions
No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.
Documents
1 official file
Introduced in House
summary · EN · 20 September 1973
Sponsors
No sponsors or actors listed by the source.
Related records
No cross-record relationships stored yet.
Sources
PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.
- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/93rd-congress/house-resolution/557
- Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/93/hres/557