IHR/OHCHRactivitythree

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Activity Three (Extension Activity)

Get familiar with the language and substance of a human rights treaty or two.

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).