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The 39 pages that link to International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, each with the reason it gives.

• Human rightsBroader topic: It sets binding treaty obligations for protections such as life, liberty, and fair trial.

• Self-determinationRelated: Its common Article 1 declares that all peoples have the right of self-determination.

• Universal Declaration of Human RightsBroader topic: It turned many declaration principles into treaty obligations for states that ratify it.

• Freedom of expressionRelated: Article 19 sets out the right and conditions under which states may restrict it.

• Freedom of religionRelated: Article 18 sets out a widely used international standard for religious freedom.

• European Convention on Human RightsCompared with: It offers a global treaty framework without a court whose judgments operate like Strasbourg judgments.

• Minority rightsRelated: Article 27 sets out a central treaty protection for minority culture, religion, and language.

• Conscientious objectionRelated: Its conscience and religion protections underpin international arguments about military refusal.

• Emergency powersRelated: Article 4 sets conditions for derogating from certain treaty obligations during public emergencies.

• Equality before the lawRelated: It binds states parties to equality before courts and equal protection of law.

• Basic Law of Hong KongRelated: Its application to Hong Kong informs how the Basic Law’s rights guarantees are understood.

• Freedom of associationRelated: Article 22 sets an international treaty standard for associational freedom.

• International human rights lawBroader topic: It turns many declaration rights into binding treaty obligations for its parties.

• Hong Kong national security lawRelated: Rights groups assess the law’s restrictions against protections applicable in Hong Kong.

• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural RightsRelated: The two covenants divide and develop rights first presented together in the Universal Declaration.

• Nuremberg CodeRelated: Its Article 7 made a prohibition related to the Code binding for treaty parties.

• BlasphemyRelated: Its protections frame international debates about whether blasphemy restrictions are permissible.

• Convention on the Rights of Persons with DisabilitiesCompared with: It protects universal rights generally, while this Convention details their application to disability.

• European Charter for Regional or Minority LanguagesRelated: Its minority-language guarantee is broader in reach but less detailed in language services.

• Freedom of assemblyRelated: Article 21 gives peaceful assembly binding treaty protection for states parties.

• Blasphemy lawRelated: Its protections frame international criticism of broad restrictions on religiously offensive speech.

• Freedom of movementRelated: Article 12 makes movement rights binding on states parties, subject to specified limits.

• Right to a fair trialRelated: Article 14 sets out fair-hearing and criminal-procedure rights for states parties.

• Freedom of thoughtRelated: Article 18 makes freedom of thought and conscience a binding treaty obligation.

• Civil and political rightsBroader topic: It sets out a central international legal framework for these rights.

• Conscientious objectorRelated: Its protections provide an international human-rights framework for claims of conscientious objection.

• Non-discriminationRelated: Its equality guarantees prohibit discrimination in the enjoyment of protected rights.

• North Korean human rightsRelated: North Korea is a party to this treaty, which creates relevant legal obligations.

• Right to lifeBroader topic: Article 6 gives treaty form to the right to life and restricts arbitrary deprivation.

• African Charter on Human and Peoples' RightsCompared with: It is a global counterpart to the Charter’s civil and political guarantees.

• DerogationRelated: Article 4 establishes a separate emergency-derogation regime for states parties.

• Freedom of information lawRelated: Its interpretation connects access to government-held information with freedom of expression.

• Alternative civilian serviceRelated: Its protections underpin international arguments about freedom of conscience and military service.

• Negative and positive rightsBroader topic: Its protections are often treated as predominantly negative, though they also require state action.

• René CassinRelated: It gave binding treaty form to rights also proclaimed in the declaration Cassin helped draft.

• Criminalization of homosexualityRelated: Its privacy and equality protections underpin challenges to laws targeting same-sex intimacy.

• Linguistic rightsRelated: Article 27 protects linguistic minorities' use of their own language.

• Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in IslamCompared with: Its enforceable treaty provisions contrast with the declaration’s nonbinding, Sharia-qualified commitments.

• Three generations of human rightsRelated: It gives binding treaty form to many first-generation rights.