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|date=1976-03-23
|accessdate=2022-04-11
}}</ref> It was adopted by United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2200A (XXI) on 16 December 1966 and entered into force 23 March 1976 after its thirty-fifth ratification or accession. (Article 49 allowed that the covenant would enter into force three months after the date of the deposit of the thirty-fifth instrument of ratification or accession.) As of September 2019, the Covenant has 173 parties and six more signatories without ratification, most notably the People's Republic of [[China ]] and Cuba;<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=IV-4&chapter=4&clang=_en
|title=UN Treaty Collection - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Status of ratification
}}</ref> North Korea is the only state that has tried to withdraw.<ref name="WP">{{URLwikipedia|International_Covenant_on_Civil_and_Political_Rights|International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights|2022-04-11}}</ref>
The ICCPR is considered a seminal document in the history of international law and [[human rights]], forming part of the ''International Bill of Human Rights'', along with the ''International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights'' (ICESCR) and the ''Universal Declaration of Human Rights'' (UDHR).<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080313093428/http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu6/2/fs2.htm
|archived=yes
|accessdate=2022-04-12
}}</ref> Most nations are a state-party to the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.
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|url=https://treaties.un.org/doc/Treaties/1976/03/19760323%2006-17%20AM/Ch_IV_04.pdf
|title=International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (official document)
|publisher=United Nations
|date=1967
|accessdate=2022-04-12
}}
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