At the United Nations, there are currently ten human rights treaty bodies, which are committees of independent experts that meet on a regular schedule to examine compliance with treaties by individual state parties. Nine of these treaty bodies monitor implementation of the core international human rights treaties while the tenth, the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture, monitors places of detention in States parties to the Optional Protocol to the convention.
o Human Rights Committee
12 - 30 March 2012
States for Examination:
Cape Verde and Mozambique (in the absence of a report), Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Turkmenistan, Yemen
Task Forces for Adoption of Lists of Issues:
Philippines, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Paraguay, Portugal, Turkey
o Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
13 February to 9 March 2012
Canada, Italy, Israel, Jordan Kuwait, Laos, Mexico, Portugal, Qatar, Senegal, Turkmenistan and Viet Nam
o Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
5-9 December 2011
Bulgaria, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Mauritania and United Republic of Tanzania
30 April-18 May 2012
New Zealand, Peru, Slovakia, Spain, Ethiopia
o Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
13 February - 2 March 2012
Algeria, Brazil, Congo, Grenada, Jordan, Norway, Zimbabwe
o Committee Against Torture
7 May - 1 June 2012
Albania, Armenia, Canada, Cuba, Czech Republic, Greece, Mexico, Rwanda and Syrian Arab Republic
o Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
(2012 schedule not yet available)
o Committee on the Rights of the Child
16 Jan - 3 Feb 2012
Azerbaijan, Cook Islands, Madagascar, Myanmar, Niue Islands, Thailand, Togo
OPSC: Azerbaijan, Thailand, Togo
OPAC: Azerbaijan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Thailand
o Committee on Migrant Workers
16-27 April 2012
Paraguay, Tajikistan
o Committee on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities
(2012 schedule not yet available)
