UN Human Rights Bodies: An Overview
This section contains basic information on the most important UN bodies that deal with human rights.
- UN-Human Rights Bodies: Getting Started
Introduction to the human rights bodies of the UN: political and contracting entities - HRC - Human Rights Council
- UNHCHR - United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
- CESCR - Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- CCPR - Human Rights Committee
- CERD - Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
- CEDAW - Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- CAT - Committee against Torture
- CRC - Committee on the Rights of the Child
- CMW - Committee on Migrant Workers
- CRPD - Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
