1.
Nothing in the present Covenant may be interpreted as imply ing for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms recognized herein or at their limitation to a greater extent than is provided for in the present Covenant.
2. There shall be no restriction upon or derogation from any of the fundamen tal human rights recognized or existing in any State Party to the present Covenant pursuant to law, conventions, regulations or custom on the pretext that the present Covenant does not recognize such rights or that it recognizes them to a lesser extent.
Official text
Transcription: Spot-checked
In force from 16-12-1966
Source page 4
The document's transcription was spot-checked against the supplied source; this does not confirm a line-by-line review of every provision.
How Lex Cameroon marks its texts →
Section 5 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights/akn/un/act/treaty/1966-12-16/iccpr
Report an error in this text
AI features are in beta
Where an official English or French text exists, we show it; where none does, we give
a translation, clearly marked as one and never presented as the official text. We make
every AI feature as accurate as we can, but it can be wrong and is not legal advice —
always check the cited official text.