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    The document lists key international human rights instruments including conventions, protocols, and number of state parties. It includes the International Convention on Elimination of Racial Discrimination from 1965, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights from 1966, and Convention on the Rights of the Child from 1989. Many instruments aim to protect civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights or eliminate discrimination against vulnerable groups.

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    CORE HUMAN RIGHTS

    INSTRUMENTS
    Optional protocols, Date of Adoption, Enforcement date and
    Number of State Parties
    INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON ELIMINATION
    OF ALL FORMS OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION

     for speedily eliminating racial discrimination in all its


    forms and manifestations, and to prevent and combat
    racist doctrines and practices in order to promote
    understanding between races and to build an
    international community free from all forms of racial
    segregation and racial discrimination

     Date of Adoption: 21 December 1965


     Entry into Force: 4 January 1969

     Number of State Parties: 182


    INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS

     the ideal of free human beings enjoying civil and political


    freedom and freedom from fear and want can only be
    achieved if conditions are created whereby everyone may
    enjoy his civil and political rights

     Date of Adoption: 16 December 1966


     Entry in to Force: 23 March 1976

     Number of State Parties: 173


    OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE INTERNATIONAL
    COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS

     Date of Adoption: 16 December 1966


     Entry in to Force: 23 March 1976

     Number of State Parties: 116


    SECOND OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE INTERNATIONAL
    COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS, AIMING
    AT THE ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY

     Date of Adoption: 15 December 1989


     Entry in to Force: 11 July 1991

     Number of State Parties: 89


    INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON ECONOMIC,
    SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS
     the ideal of free human beings enjoying civil and political
    freedom and freedom from fear and want can only be
    achieved if conditions are created whereby everyone may
    enjoy his civil and political rights, as well as his economic,
    social and cultural rights

     Date of Adoption: 16 December 1966


     Entry in to Force: 3 January 1976

     Number of State Parties: 171


    OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE INTERNATIONAL
    COVENANT ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL
    RIGHTS

     Date of Adoption: 10 December 2008


     Entry in to Force: 5 May 2013

     Number of State Parties: 24


    CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL
    FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN

     to adopt the measures required for the elimination of


    discrimination against women in all its forms and
    manifestations

     Date of Adoption: 18 December 1979


     Entry in to Force: 3 September 1981

     Number of State Parties: 189


    OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE CONVENTION ON THE
    ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION
    AGAINST WOMEN

     Date of Adoption: 6 October 1999


     Entry in to Force: 22 December 2000

     Number of State Parties: 114


    CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE AND OTHER
    CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR
    PUNISHMENT

     to make more effective the struggle against torture and


    other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or
    punishment throughout the world

     Date of Adoption: 10 December 1984


     Entry in to Force: 26 June 1987

     Number of State Parties: 90


    OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE CONVENTION AGAINST
    TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN OR
    DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT

     Date of Adoption: 18 December 2002


     Entry in to Force: 22 June 2006

     Number of State Parties: 90


    CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD

     sets out the civil, political, economic, social, health and


    cultural rights of children

     Date of Adoption: 20 November 1989


     Entry in to Force: 2 September 1990

     Number of State Parties: 196


    OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE CONVENTION ON THE
    RIGHTS OF THE CHILD ON THE INVOLVEMENT OF
    CHILDREN IN ARMED CONFLICT

     Date of Adoption: 25 May 2000


     Entry in to Force: 12 February 2002

     Number of State Parties: 170


    OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE CONVENTION ON THE
    RIGHTS OF THE CHILD ON THE SALE OF CHILDREN,
    CHILD PROSTITUTION AND CHILD PORNOGRAPHY

     Date of Adoption: 25 May 2000


     Entry in to Force: 18 January 2002

     Number of State Parties: 176


    OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE CONVENTION ON THE
    RIGHTS OF THE CHILD ON A COMMUNICATIONS
    PROCEDURE

     Date of Adoption: 19 December 2011


     Entry in to Force: 14 April 2014

     Number of State Parties: 47


    INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON THE PROTECTION
    OF THE RIGHTS OF ALL MIGRANT WORKERS AND
    MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILIES

     international protection of the rights of all migrant


    workers and members of their families,

     Date of Adoption: 18 December 1990


     Entry in to Force: 1 July 2003

     Number of State Parties: 56


    INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION FOR THE
    PROTECTION OF ALL PERSONS FROM ENFORCED
    DISAPPEARANCE

     to prevent forced disappearance defined in


    international law, crimes against humanity

     Date of Adoption: 20 December 2006


     Entry in to Force: 23 December 2010

     Number of State Parties: 62


    CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF
    PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
     to protect the rights and dignity of persons with
    disabilities. Parties to the Convention are required to
    promote, protect, and ensure the full enjoyment of
    human rights by persons with disabilities and ensure
    that persons with disabilities enjoy full equality under
    the law.

     Date of Adoption: 13 December 2006


     Entry in to Force: 3 May 2008

     Number of State Parties: 184


    OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE CONVENTION ON
    THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

     Date of Adoption: 13 December 2006


     Entry in to Force: 3 May 2008

     Number of State Parties: 100

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