JURISPRUDENCE
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Abbreviations

 
Treaty bodies:
 
CATCommittee Against Torture
CEDAWCommittee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
CERDCommittee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
CESCRCommittee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
CMWCommittee on Migrant Workers
CRCCommittee on the Rights of the Child
HRCHuman Rights Committee
CRPDCommittee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
CEDCommittee on Enforced Disappearances (According to OHCHR Website)
SPTSubcommittee on the Prevention of Torture
 
The core International Human Rights Instruments and their Optional Protocols:
 
CATConvention Against Torture and other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
CEDAWConvention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
CRCConvention on the Rights of the Child
ICCPRInternational Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
ICCPR-OP1Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
ICCPR-OP2Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
ICERDInternational Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
ICESCRInternational Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights
ICPPEDInternational Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances
ICRMWInternational Convention on the Protection on the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
ICRPDInternational Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
OP-CATOptional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
OP-CEDAWOptional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
OP-CRC-ACOptional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict
OP-CRC-SCOptional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
OP-CRPDOptional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
OP-ICESCROptional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
 

*This database is based on a database designed and developed by the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) of Utrecht University which has agreed to make its database available to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.