APART FROM THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION, WHAT OTHER INSTRUMENTS MAKE UP THE INTERNATIONAL BILL OF HUMAN RIGHTS ?
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was the first part of the objective; the other parts, designed to elaborate the content of the provisions of the Declaration, took many years to complete. On 16 December 1966, the United Nations General Assembly adopted two Covenants the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and an Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, allowing for complaints to be made by individuals on violations of their rights embodied in the Covenant. In adopting these instruments, the international community not only agreed on the content of each right set forth within the Universal Declaration, but also on measures for their implementation. A further elaboration took place when, in December 1989, the Second Optional Protocol to ICCPR, aimed at abolishing the death penalty, was adopted by the General Assembly. The adoption of these two Covenants endorsed the General Assembly r
