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ANNEX ITHE SEVEN “CORE” UNITED NATIONSINTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS TREATIESTreatyAdoptedStatespartiesMonitoring bodyInternational Covenant on Civil and PoliticalRights (ICCPR)1966 155 Human Rights CommitteeInternational Covenant on Economic, Social andCommittee on Economic, Social and1966 152Cultural Rights (ICESCR)Cultural RightsInternational Convention on the Elimination of AllCommittee on the Elimination of Racial1965 170Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD)DiscriminationConvention on the Elimination of All Forms ofCommittee on the Elimination of1979 181Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)Discrimination against WomenConvention against Torture and Other Cruel,Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 1984 141 Committee against Torture(CAT)Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 1989 192 Committee on the Rights of the ChildInternational Convention on the Protection of theRights of All Migrant Workers and Members ofTheir Families (MWC)1990 34 Committee on Migrant WorkersSource: United Nations Treaties Database, http://untreaty.un.org/English/access.asp (accessed 21 February 2006). All countries have ratifiedat least one of the seven core United Nations human rights treaties, and 80 per cent have ratified four or more.33
INTERNATIONAL DECLARATIONSON HUMAN RIGHTSUniversal Declaration of Human Rights (10 December1948), A/RES/217A(III), http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/eng.htm.Declaration on the Elimination of Violence againstWomen (20 December 1993), A/RES/48/104, http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/eliminationvaw.htm.Declaration on the Right to Development (4 December1986), A/RES/41/128, http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/rtd.htm.Declaration on the Right and Responsibility ofIndividuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promoteand Protect Universally Recognized Human Rightsand Fundamental Freedoms (9 December 1998),A/RES/53/144, http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/freedom.htm.United Nations Millennium Declaration (8 September2000), A/RES/55/2, http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/millennium.htm.For a fuller list of international human rights conventionsand related instruments, see the compilation posted on:http://www2.unog.ch/intinstr/uninstr.exe?language=en.34
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