The United States has both signed and ratified this treaty.
International implementation of ICCPR is monitored by UN Human Rights Committee in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
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The United States has signed but not ratified this treaty. There is not yet a consensus in the United States that health care and education among other things are rights rather than privileges, though that consensus does exist in most of the rest of the world.
International implementation of ICESCR is monitored by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
The United States has both signed and ratified this treaty.
International implementation of CERD is monitored by the UN Committee on The Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
Brief Review of Key Recommendations of CERD to the United States (2008) (p0werpoint)
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The United States has signed but not ratified this treaty. There has been a great deal of concern expressed from some quarters in the United States about the family planning provisions which has made it difficult to get the 2/3 majority required in the US Senate for full ratification.
International implementation of CEDAW is monitored by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
CRC is the most universally ratified human rights Convention. The United States government played an active role in the drafting of the Convention and President Clinton signed it on February16, 1995, but the US Senate has not ratified it. Along with Somalia, the United States is one of only two countries in the world which have not ratified the Convention. It has been claimed that opposition to the Convention stems primarily from political and religious conservatives. Concern has been expressed, for example, by those in opposition to ratification that it threatens national control over domestic policy, that CRC threatens homeschooling, that it would automatically override almost all domestic laws on children and families because of the U.S. Constitution’s Supremacy Clause in Article VI, and that it undermines parental rights by granting State officials the power to micromanage families and review all parental decisions to verify that they are truly in the “best interests” of the child, when the best interests standard is highly subjective, in addition to allowing minors to have abortions without the knowledge or consent of parents. This is in spite of the articles in the convention that are written to expressly preserve the rights of parents. President Barack Obama has described the failure to ratify the Convention as ’embarrassing’ and has promised to review this.
The US has signed and ratified both the Optional Protocol on Children in Armed Conflict to CRC and the Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.
International implementation of CRC is monitored by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
UNICEF (the United Nations Children’s Fund) is the UN organization with primary responsibility for promoting child rights and the welfare of children. “UNICEF is the driving force that helps build a world where the rights of every child are realized.”
The United States has both signed and ratified CAT.
International implementation of CAT is monitored by the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
The United States has both signed and ratified the Geneva Conventions and ratified or signed many of their related Protocols.
The United States has not, however, signed or ratified some of the weapons ban treaties that have entered into force in the last decade such as the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (also known as the Ottawa Treaty), or the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
The United States has neither signed nor ratified the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime f Apartheid.
The convention was approved at a special United Nations conference in July, 1951. It entered into force in April 1954. It was initially limited to protecting European refugees after World War II but a 1967 Protocol removed the geographical and time limits, expanding the Convention’s scope. Because the convention was approved in Geneva, it is often referred to as “the Geneva Convention,” though it is not one of the Geneva Conventions specifically dealing with allowable behavior in time of war.
The United States has signed and ratified the 1967 Protocol.
The United States has both signed and ratified this convention.
The United States has neither signed nor ratified the Convention for the Protection of All Persons From Enforced Disappearance.
International implementation of the Convention is monitored by the UN Committee Committee on Enforced Disappearance (CED) in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
The United States has not signed or ratified CRPD.
International implementation of the Convention is monitored by the UN Committee Committee on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities (CRPD) in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
The United States has neither signed nor ratified this treaty.
In fact most nations in the world have not despite the fact that the Convention does not create new rights for migrants but aims at guaranteeing equality of treatment, and the same working conditions for migrants and nationals. The Convention innovates because it relies on the fundamental notion that all migrants should have access to a minimum degree of protection. The Convention recognizes that legal migrants have the legitimacy to claim more rights than undocumented migrants, but it stresses that undocumented migrants must see their fundamental human rights respected, like all human beings.
International implementation of the Convention is monitored by the UN Committee Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW) in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 is an International Labour Organization Convention, also known as ILO-convention 169, or C169. It is the major binding international convention concerning indigenous peoples, and a forerunner of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
The United States has neither signed nor ratified C169. President Obama indicated, in December of 2010, that he would sign the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
