IHR/HRCactivityfour

The Human Rights Council and UPR Process Activity Four (Extension Activity)

Build your familiarity with the core human rights treaties.

Below is a link to all the major human rights treaties. From the table of contents, select a treaty of particular interest to you, and read it through. (Please note we will read the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women in module ten.) What rights does the treaty enshrine? Is your country a signatory to this treaty?

United Nations Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner, The Core International Human Rights Treaties (New York and Geneva: United Nations, 2014).