Iraqi International Initiative on refugees
المبادرة العراقية الدولية للاجئين

Special Procedures

28 Thematic mandates

10 Country Mandates

major electronic sources for human rights instruments as well as the sources that provide information about the issuing body itself

UN Charter-based bodies, including the Human Rights Council, and bodies created under the international human rights treaties and made up of independent experts mandated to monitor State parties’ compliance with their treaty obligations. Most of these bodies receive secretariat support from the Human Rights Council and Treaties Division of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Charter and Treaty based bodies

Monitoring the core international human rights treaties:

The human rights treaty bodies are committees of independent experts that monitor implementation of the core international human rights treaties. They are created in accordance with the provisions of the treaty that they monitor.

Human Rights Treaty Bodies

Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948-1998

International Convenant on Civil and Political Rights, UN December 1966

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, UN December 1966

Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, March 1976

Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, December 1989

International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, CERD, December 1965

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, CCPR, December 1966

International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights, CESCR, December 1966

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, CEDAW, December 1979

Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, CAT, December 1984

Convention on the Rights of the Child, CRC, November 1989

International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, CMW, December 1990

International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, (not yet into force)

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, (not yet into force)

Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, HRC, December 1966

Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, HRC, December 1989

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, CEDAW, December 1999

Optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict, CRC, May 2000

Optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, CRC, May 2000

Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, CAT, December 2002

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, (not yet into force)

In addition to the International Bill of Rights and the core human rights treaties, there are many other universal instruments relating to human rights. A non-exhaustive selection is listed below. The legal status of these instruments varies: declarations, principles, guidelines, standard rules and recommendations have no binding legal effect, but such instruments have an undeniable moral force and provide practical guidance to States in their conduct; covenants, statutes, protocols and conventions are legally-binding for those States that ratify or accede to them. Non exhaustive list of instruments