Is International Human Rights Law Enforceable?
Human rights treaties require countries that have ratified them to submit their human rights performance (good or bad) to international supervision. The reporting systems for monitoring whether States have met their human rights obligations are described more fully in Chapters 10 and 11. In general, though, at the international level, States report on their own performance to bodies set up by the United Nations to monitor each of the six major human rights treaties described in Chapter 1: the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR or the Covenant); the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR); the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD); the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW); the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC); and the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Torture Convention
