Library Guides: Human Rights Law: Global human rights

Global human rights - comparative tools

UN Treaty Collection Status of Treaties database - Check any country's human rights and optional protocols treaties' ratification & accession status and reservations

OHCHR's Status of Ratification Interactive Dashboard (OHCHR) - Identify regional and individual country's ratification status of 18 human rights treaties. Useful map navigation.

Whatconvention.org - useful international legal research search engine for human rights and humanitratian law. Search for conventions and ratification details by topic and/or country

UN Universal Human Rights Index - country-specific human rights information emanating from international human rights mechanisms in the United Nations system: the Treaty Bodies, the Special Procedures and the Universal Periodic Review (UPR).

Status of Treaties Chapter IV Human Rights
To see which States have accepted the Committee's competence for a particular Convention, go to the UN Treaty Collection Status of Treaties Chapter IV Human Rights > scroll to the relevant Optional Protocol (ICCPR, CEDAW, CRPD, ICESCR and CRC) or Convention (CERD, CAT, CED and CMW). In the case of the CERD, CAT, CED and CMW Conventions, a list of States that have accepted the Committee's competence is at the bottom of the individual Convention information page.
Status of Ratification Interactive Dashboard (OHCHR)
Whatconvention.org
The UN Universal Human Rights Index