OHCHR JURIS DatabaseOpen Access
"The JURIS database is a central repository of the jurisprudence of the United Nations Treaty Bodies (Committees)."
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
Monitors implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (4 January 1969)
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)
Monitors implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (3 January 1976).
Human Rights Committee (CCPR)
Monitors implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (23 March 1976) and its optional protocols.
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
Monitors implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979) and its optional protocol (3 September 1981).
Committee against Torture (CAT)
Monitors implementation of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment (26 June 1987).
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
Monitors implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (2 September 1990) and its optional protocols.
Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW)
Monitors implementation of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (1 July 2003).
Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (SPT)
Established pursuant to the Optional Protocol of the Convention against Torture (OPCAT) (22 June 2006) visits places of detention in order to prevent torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
