VI.3 STATUS OF THE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS (as of 11 January 2010)

Chart showing those States that are a party to the United Nations human rights treaties listed below.

The international human rights treaties of the United Nations that establish committees of experts to monitor their implementation are the following:

  1. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), which is monitored by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights;
  2. Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  3. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which is monitored by the Human Rights Committee;
  4. Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (OP1), which is supervised by the Human Rights Committee;
  5. Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (OP2-DP);
  6. International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), which is monitored by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination;
  7. Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT), which is monitored by the Committee against Torture;
  8. Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OP)
  9. International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance
  10. International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, which is monitored by the Migrant Workers Committee (ICMW).
  11. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), which is monitored by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women;
  12. Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (OP);
  13. Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which is monitored by the Committee on the Rights of the Child;
  14. Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (OP-AC) on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict;
  15. Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (OP-SC) on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography;
  16. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
  17. Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (OP)

The following chart shows which States are a party to these United Nations human rights treaties listed above. The total number of human rights treaties to which each State is a party is also shown. As at 11 January 2010, all 192 UN Member States and three non-Member States (marked with *) were a party to one or more of those treaties.