Distinguishing the accord from similar agreements with Christian churches are its preamble's references to international covenants against racial and religious discrimination.

To study international covenants and documents of international human rights and their applications.

In a judgment in 1990, that committee cited Canada for breaking international covenants on civil and political rights.

The government contends that international covenants outweigh national law in this case.

Administration officials declared that China's decision to sign the international covenant on human rights was further evidence that American policy was a success.

The United States seeks to conform with international covenants that guarantee the inalienable right of religious freedom to every human being.

Now two unresolved issues are prompting new looks at American attitudes toward international covenants.

Do norms of human conduct or international covenants apply?

America should abide by those international covenants as well.

Institutions and international covenants against a range of abuses are in place and being tested.