Why Did States Write Two Separate Treaties When Translating the UDHR

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Multiple Choice

Why did states write two separate treaties when translating the UDHR into hard international law protecting human rights?

• A)States wanted the rights protected in one treaty to be hard law and the rights protected in the other treaty to be soft law.
• B)The negotiation over hard international human rights law got caught in the Cold War politics of the United States and Soviet Union.
• C)Some states did not view many rights guaranteed in the UDHR as universal human rights.
• D)Civil and political rights were viewed as too ambitious to implement,and many states advocated placing them in a separate treaty.

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