UN Treaties

• Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
  Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 39/46 of 10 December 1984
  Entry into force 26 June 1987, in accordance with article 27 (1)
  
  
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
  Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 34/180 of 18 December 1979
  Entry into force 3 September 1981, in accordance with article 27(1)
  
  
• Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
  Adopted in December 2006
  
  
• Convention on the Rights of the Child
  Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 44/25 of 20 November 1989
  Entry into force 2 September 1990, in accordance with article 49
  
  
• Convention concerning Discrimination in Respect of Employment and Occupation
  Date of coming into force: 15:06:1960
  Convention: C111
  Date of adoption: 25:06:1958
  
  
• Convention concerning Occupational Safety and Health and the Working Environment
  Date of coming into force: 11:08:1983
  Convention:C155
  Date of adoption:22:06:1981
  
  
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
  Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 2200A (XXI) of 16 December 1966
  Entry into force 23 March 1976, in accordance with Article 49
  
  
• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 2200A (XXI) of 16 December 1966
  Entry into force 3 January 1976, in accordance with article 27
  
  
• International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
  Adopted and opened for signature and ratification by General Assembly resolution 2106 (XX) of 21 December 1965
  Entry into force 4 January 1969, in accordance with Article 19
  
  
• International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
  Adopted by General Assembly resolution 45/158 of 18 December 1990
  
  
• Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflicts
  Adopted on 25 May 2000
  Entry into force 12 February 2002
  
  
• Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography
  Adopted on 25 May 2000
  Entry into force 18 January 2002

General comments

• General comment No. 3 (2003): HIV/AIDS and the rights of the child
  Committee on the Rights of the Child
  Thirty-second session
  13-31 January 2003
  
  
• General comment No. 14 (2000): The right to the highest attainable standard of health
  Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  Twenty-second session
  25 April-12 May 2000
  
  
• General Recommendation No. 24 (1999): Women and health (Article 12)
  Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
  Women and health : 05/02/99.
  
  
• General Recommendation No. 15 (1990): Avoidance of discrimination against women in national strategies for the prevention and control of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
  Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
  1990

Concluding observations

• Concluding Comments of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women:
  Namibia 2007
  Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
  Thirty-seventh session
  15 January - 2 February 2007
  
  
• Concluding Comments of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women:
  Malawi 2006
  Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
  Thirty-fifth session
  15 May - 2 June 2006
  
  
• Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child:
  Mauritius 2006
  Committee on the Rights of the Child
  Forty-first session
  17 March 2006
  
  
• Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child:
  Uganda 2005
  Committee on the Rights of the Child
  Fortieth session
  30 September 2005
  
  
• Concluding Observations of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights:
  Zambia 2005
  Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  Thirty-fourth session
  25 April-13 May 2005
  
  
• Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child:
  Angola 2004
  Committee on the Rights of the Child
  Thirty-seventh session
  3 November 2004
  
  
• Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child:
  Botswana 2004
  Committee on the Rights of the Child
  Thirty-seventh session
  3 November 2004
  
  
• Concluding Comments of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women:
  Kenya 2003
  Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
  20 March 2003
  
  
• Concluding Observations of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Right :
  Sudan 2000
  Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  1 September 2000