Canada's Reports on UN Human Rights Treaties and Related Official Documents
In addition to supporting the principles enunciated in the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights, Canada has ratified the six United Nations human rights treaties
and submitted reports on its implementation of each of these treaties.
- Universal Declaration of Human
Rights. Adopted and proclaimed by the UN general Assembly on December
10, 1948.
- International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights (ICCPR). Accession by Canada in May 1976.
Text of the Covenant, the first
optional protocol and the views of the UN Committee on the merit of communications
against Canada, Canada's most recent reports and the UN Committee conclusions on
these reports.
- International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). Ratified by Canada in May 1976.
Text of the Covenant, Canada's most recent reports and the UN Committee conclusions
on these reports.
- International Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD). Accession
by Canada in October 1970. Text of the Convention, Canada's most recent
reports and the UN Committee conclusions on these reports.
- Convention on the Rights of the
Child (CRC). Ratified by Canada in December 1991. Text of the Convention,
the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of
Children in Armed Conflict (ratified by Canada in July 2000), and
the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children,
Child Prostitution and Child Pornography (ratified by Canada in September 2005), Canada's reports and the UN Committee conclusions on these reports.
- Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). Ratified by
Canada in December 1981. Text of the Convention, the optional
protocol, Canada's most recent reports and the UN Committee's conclusions
on these reports.
- Convention against Torture and Other
Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT).Ratified
by Canada in June 1987. Text of the Convention, Canada's most recent reports
and the UN Committee's conclusions on these reports.
Other Reports
- Core Document Forming Part of the
Reports of States Parties (submitted to the UN in October 1997)
Basic reference document on Canada's political system for use by United Nations
human rights committees reviewing Canada's reports.
- Canada's response to the UN questionnaire circulated by the High Commissioner
pursuant to paragraph 49(a) of Commission on Human Rights resolution 1999/78
with a view to reviewing progress
made in the fight against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and
related intolerance and reappraising the obstacles to further progress.
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