ISHR Simple Guide to the Treaty Bodies - updated edition

Dear Friends,
ISHR has just re-edited its Simple Guide to the Treaty Bodies. The updated edition can be downloaded here.
The Simple Guide aims to provide human rights defenders and their organisations with a broad overview of the UN human rights treaty body system and its functions in order to support their effective engagement with the treaty bodies in their own work.

The Guide also contains other information that defenders may find useful, such as the relationship between the treaty bodies and other international human rights mechanisms, relevant developments related to the harmonisation of the working methods of the treaty bodies, and a glossary and e-resources for further reference.

The latest edition of the Simple Guide has been updated to include the first meeting of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in February 2009 and the adoption of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

Best regards,
International Service for Human Rights

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Quotes of the Month

Seeing the police members at the welcoming event together with sex workers activists and supporters, hearing the fact that 90% of reported cases between 2005 -2009 are solved and perpetrators are convicted, and that rape rate over the last year was 40%, was a real inspiration and hope that in a period of time, trough a committed work we can get there too..
--- Marija Tosheva (HOPS, Macedonia) about IHRA-2010, Liverpool.

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Odyseus, Slovakia 2009





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