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Labor: Safety and Health in Mines

Convention 176 adopted by the International Labor Conference at its eighty-second session at Geneva on June 22, 1995; Transmitted by the President of the United States of America to the Senate September 9, 1999 (Treaty Doc. 106-8, 106th Congress, 1st Session); Reported favorably by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations July 26, 2000 (Senate Executive Report No. 106-16, 106th Congress, 2d Session); Advice and consent to ratification by the Senate September 20, 2000; Ratified by the President January 5, 2001; Ratified of the United States of America deposited February 9, 2001; Entered into force for the United States February 9, 2002.

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The Lessons of 1989: Freedom and Our Future