Chapter 2

The UDHR is available in full text on the website of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in over 400 languages, including sign language, http://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Pages/SearchByLang.aspx

The other nine treaties are available in full text and in all official UN languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish), on the OHCHR website, http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CoreInstruments.aspx

Find links to each of the ten instruments on this page of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CoreInstruments.aspx

See the status of ratifications of all treaties through the OHCHR web page,http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/TreatyBodyExternal/Treaty.aspx?CountryID=42&Lang=EN

Find links with information about the different committees in the right-hand side column of this list of the core treaties. The list clearly indicates which committee monitors what treaty. http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CoreInstruments.aspx

For more information about the treaty- and Charter-based Monitoring bodies on the OHCHR website, http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/Pages/HumanRightsBodies.aspx

For more information about cooperation between the UN and regional systems see, http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Countries/NHRI/Pages/Cooperation.aspx

For more information about the roles and functions of NHRIs and their relation to the international UN system can be found here, http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Countries/NHRI/Pages/NHRIMain.aspx

Information on regional systems and instruments can be found through the websites of the coordinating bodies: Inter-American System of Human Rights

• Instruments of the Inter-American system
• Inter American Court of Human Rights (Statute)

European System of Human Rights

• European Convention on Human Rights
• European Social Charter
• European Court of Human Rights

African System of Human Rights

• African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights
• African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
• African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights
• Other OAU Instruments

ASEAN Human Rights framework

• ASEAN Human Rights Declaration

• ASEAN Inter-governmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR), http://aichr.org/
• ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children, http://www.asean.org/communities/asean-socio-cultural-community/category/acwc

League of Arab states framework

• The Arab Charter on Human Rights (2004)

Information on all registered NHRIs globally and regional networks can be found in the following links:

• OHCHR and NHRIs
• International Coordination Committee on National Institutions
• http://www.asiapacificforum.net/
• http://www.nanhri.org/index.php?lang=en