CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION.......................................................................1
Chapters
I..
DEVELOPING HUMAN RIGHTS STANDARDS: THE TREATIES
AND THEIR OPTIONAL PROTOCOLS......................................3
A..
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)...................3
B..
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Racial Discrimination (1965)...........................................5
C.. International Bill of Human Rights.....................................6
D.. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Discrimination against Women (1979)..........................9
E..
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984)..................10
F..
Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)...................12
G.. International Convention on the Protection of the Rights
of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families
(1990).....................................................................14
H.. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
(2006).....................................................................15
I..
International Convention for the Protection of
All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (2006).............16
J..
Reading the treaties as a whole.....................................18
II.. IMPLEMENTATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS STANDARDS:
THE TREATY BODIES..........................................................19
A..
What are the human rights treaty bodies?.......................19
B..
What do the human rights treaty bodies do?....................21
C.. Consideration of State parties’ reports............................21
D.. Consideration of complaints from individuals....................30
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