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HP Coupon Wicked Tickets NYC how do you get pregnant Kazakhstan - Human Rights CovenantsKazakhstan to Join Two International Human Rights Covenants WASHINGTON, November 26 - President Nursultan Nazarbayev signed a decree on November 17 authorizing the signature by the Republic of Kazakhstan of the two international human rights covenants, which, in addition to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, form the International Bill of Human Rights. WASHINGTON,November 26 2003-- President Nursultan Nazarbayev signed a decree on November 17 authorizing the signature by the Republic of Kazakhstan of the two international human rights covenants, which, in addition to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, form the International Bill of Human Rights. According to the decree, Kazakhstan will soon join the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenants on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. These covenants were approved by the UN General Assembly in December 1966. As of today, 148 countries are members of the document on civil and political rights, and 145 countries have already joined to the document on economic, social and cultural rights. Bolat Baikadamov, Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Kazakhstan, at a news conference in Astana on November 19 said the adoption of these covenants will assist Kazakhstan in building a democratic state. States that have signed these documents have a responsibility to annually provide UN with official information on condition of human rights and collaborate with UN entities in order to eliminate uncovered violations of citizen’s rights and freedoms. Kazakhstan's final joining to the covenants will take place after their ratification by the Parliament of the county with adjustments taking into account specifics of current national legislation in the sphere of human rights protection. In particular, Kazakhstan plans to keep reservations concerning the right for strikes. According to the law about state service, public employees are not allowed to strike. Kazakhstan is also intending to object to reservations by other countries. One of them is the reservation by the United States that allows the U.S. to sentence under-18-year-olds to death penalty. According to Kazakhstan's legislation for under aged persons and women are not to be sentenced to death. This issue is likely to be present in the civil rights agenda for some time, since Kazakhstan is deliberating the introduction of life sentencing instead of death penalties. 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 71 | | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 |