A House with Two Rooms - The Advocates for Human Rights

odies and are now overdue:
• Committee against Torture on Oct. 22, 2005;
• Committee on Civil and Political Rights on Dec. 22, 2005;
• Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on Aug. 16 of 1985, 1989,
1993, 1997, 2001, and 2005;
• Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on Dec. 5 of 1977, 1979, 1981, 1983,
1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, and 2007;
• Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on June 30, 2006;
The Government of Liberia has signed, but neither ratified nor acceded to the following treaties:
• Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
• Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women,
• International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and
Members of Their Families,
• Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of
children in armed conflict,
• Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child
prostitution and child pornography,
• Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,
• Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,
• Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the
Prostitution of Others,
• Convention on the Political Rights of Women,
• Protocol amending the Slavery Convention signed at Geneva on 25 September 1926,
• Slavery Convention, signed at Geneva on 25 September 1926 and amended by the Protocol,
• Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and
Practices Similar to Slavery,
• Protocol of the Court of Justice of the African Union,
• Protocol to the African Charter on Human And Peoples’ Rights on the Establishment of an
African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights,
• African Youth Charter,
• African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance, and
• Protocol Relating to the Establishment of the Peace and Security Council of the African
Union.
The Government of Liberia has neither signed nor ratified the following treaties:
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