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16
Desèmber
1966

UN adopts the two International Covenants on human rights

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📅 16 Desèmber 1966 📍

The General Assembly adopted the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The USSR took part in the universal rights framework, even as restrictions on speech, movement, and political organization at home exposed the distance between treaty language and Soviet practice.

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