Abbreviations

In the tables, we use the following abbreviations to refer to the eleven treaties and their corresponding enforcement mechanisms:

Treaty Enforcement Mechanism
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) None
International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights (ICCPR)
Human Rights Committee (HRC)
International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW Committee)
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) Committee on the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination (CERD)
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) Committee on the Rights of the Child
(CRC Committee)
African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and Protocols (ACHPR) African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR Commission)
[European] Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR) European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)
1996 Revised European Social Charter (ESC) European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR)
American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR) Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR)
American Declaration of the Rights and
Duties of Man (ADRDM)
Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR)

Also cited are the former Commission on Human Rights (CHR) and various UN Special Rapporteurs (SR) and Working Groups (WG).