Charter-based bodies
Human Rights Council
Universal Periodic Review
Commission on Human Rights (replaced by the Human Rights Council)
Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council
Human Rights Council Complaint Procedure
Treaty-based bodies
There are ten human rights treaty bodies that monitor implementation of the core international human rights treaties:
Human Rights Committee (CCPR)
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
Committee against Torture (CAT)
Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT)
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW)
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED)
CORE HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS
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Date
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Monitoring Body
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| ICERD | International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination |
21 Dec 1965
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CERD
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| ICCPR | International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights |
16 Dec 1966
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CCPR
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| ICESCR | International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights |
16 Dec 1966
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CESCR
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| CEDAW | Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
18 Dec 1979
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CEDAW
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| CAT | Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment |
10 Dec 1984
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CAT
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| CRC | Convention on the Rights of the Child |
20 Nov 1989
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CRC
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| ICMW | International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families |
18 Dec 1990
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CMW
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| CPED | International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance |
20 Dec 2006
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CED
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| CRPD | Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities |
13 Dec 2006
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CRPD
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| ICESCR – OP | Optional Protocol to the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights |
10 Dec 2008
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CESCR
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| ICCPR-OP1 | Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights |
16 Dec 1966
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CCPR
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| ICCPR-OP2 | Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty |
15 Dec 1989
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CCPR
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| OP-CEDAW | Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women |
10 Dec 1999
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CEDAW
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| OP-CRC-AC | Optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict |
25 May 2000
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CRC
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| OP-CRC-SC | Optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography |
25 May 2000
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CRC
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| OP-CRC-IC | Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure |
14 Apr 2014 |
CRC
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| OP-CAT | Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment |
18 Dec 2002
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SPT
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| OP-CRPD | Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities |
12 Dec 2006
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CRPD
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