UN Human Rights Standards

Throughout the course, you will need to access the UN human rights treaties, and check which states have ratified them. You may also wish to look at the broader collection of UN (non-treaty) standards, and also search through the many reports emerging from UN bodies concerning states’ compliance with their obligations under the treaties.

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The various documents and databases are found at the links below:

Nine core UN human rights treaties with their optional protocols.
UN human rights treaties with ratifications.
Full list of all UN human rights standards (treaty and non-treaty), organized by topic.
A searchable database of all reports both Charter-based bodies and treaty bodies

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UN Human Rights Standards

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