List of International Human Rights Treaties

There are nine core international human rights treaties, each established with a committee of experts to monitor implementation of the treaty provisions by its States parties. Some of the treaties are supplemented by optional protocols dealing with specific concerns. The treaties are:

• International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
  Discrimination (CERD, 1965),
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR, 1966),
• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR, 1966), Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW, 1979),
• Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT, 1984),
• Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC, 1989),
• International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (ICRMW, 1990),
• International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
  (2006), and
• Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (ICRPD, 2006)

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See Also

• Human rights international conventions
• Human rights : a reference handbook
• Human Rights conventions
• Human Rights
• International human rights law
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights