TREATY MONITORING PROTOCOLS ENTRY INTO MEMBERSHIP PHILIPPINES

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International UN Human There are two Optional Protocols to the Covenant. March 23, 1976 168 parties, 74 Signed: December
Covenant on Rights signatories 19, 1966
Civil and Committee The First Optional Protocol establishes an individual
Political complaints mechanism, allowing individuals to
Rights complain to the Human Rights Committee about RATIFIED:
violations of the Covenant. This has led to the creation October 23, 1986
of a complex jurisprudence on the interpretation and
implementation of the Covenant.

The Second Optional Protocol abolishes the death

penalty; however, countries were permitted to make a
reservation allowing for use of death penalty for the
most serious crimes of a military nature, committed
during wartime.