Treaty Bodies and Treaty Body Monitoring

Africa

African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Working Group on Communications: http://www.achpr.org/mechanisms/communications/

African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, activity reports also contain brief information on implementation: https://www.achpr.org/activityreports

African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. Its activity reports include a section on implementation of judgments: http://www.african-court.org/en/index.php/publications/activity-reports

African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC), conducts follow-up missions on the status of its Concluding Observations and Recommendations: http://www.acerwc.org/

The Americas

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, has a separate page on ‘follow-up on the decisions of the IACHR in petitions and individual cases’. Through this page more detailed reports on the status of implementation of each case listed can be reached.

https://www.oas.org/en/iachr/activities/follow-up/cases.asp

Inter-American Court on Human Rights, has a separate page on ‘monitoring compliance with judgment’: http://www.corteidh.or.cr/cf/Jurisprudencia2/busqueda_supervision_cumplimiento.cfm?lang=en

Europe

Department for the Executions of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights: https://www.coe.int/en/web/execution

HUDOC-EXEC database of the Department for the Executions of Judgments: https://hudoc.exec.coe.int/eng#{%22EXECDocumentTypeCollection%22:[%22CEC%22]}

UN

Treaty bodies: the various treaty bodies report on monitoring implementation in a number of ways, including through the publication of specific follow-up reports on Concluding Observations and recommendations from the State party reporting process and/or individual communications; as well as in their annual reports.

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD): https://www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/cerd/pages/cerdindex.aspx

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR): https://www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/cescr/pages/cescrindex.aspx

Human Rights Committee (CCPR): https://www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/ccpr/pages/ccprindex.aspx

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW): https://www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/cedaw/pages/cedawindex.aspx

Committee against Torture (CAT): https://www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/cat/pages/catindex.aspx

Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC): https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CRC/Pages/CRCIndex.aspx

Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (CMW): https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CMW/Pages/CMWIndex.aspx

Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (SPT): https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/OPCAT/Pages/OPCATIndex.aspx

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD): https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CRPD/Pages/CRPDIndex.aspx

Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED): https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CED/Pages/CEDIndex.aspx

For information on the treaty bodies generally: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/Pages/TreatyBodies.aspx

Universal Periodic Review (UPR): States are expected to periodically provide information on what they have been doing to implement the recommendations from the UPR process: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/Documentation.aspx

Civil society organisations

The following is an illustrative list of some the civil society organisations who have a particular focus on implementation within their projects and mandate:

CCPR Centre: http://ccprcentre.org/follow-up-and-assessment

Danish Institute for Human Rights: https://www.humanrights.dk/

European Implementation Network (EIN): http://www.einnetwork.org/

International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: https://www.escr-net.org/

Network of African National Human Rights Institutions (NANHRI): https://www.nanhri.org/

Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI): https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/about/programs/open-society-justice-initiative

Pan-African Lawyers’ Union (PALU): https://lawyersofafrica.org/

Raoul Wallenberg Institute: https://rwi.lu.se/

REDRESS: https://redress.org/

Remedy Australia: https://remedy.org.au/

Universal Rights Group (URG): https://www.universal-rights.org/programmes/focus-domestic-implementation-universal-norms/

Databases and tools to help with follow-up and implementation

Summa/IAHRS Case Law Database (a free online and open access database for cases heard by the Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights): https://summa.cejil.org/

Impact OSS (software to assist States to coordinate and monitor implementation of human rights and sustainable development goals): https://impactoss.org/

Institute for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa (IHRDA) Case Law Analyser (an online database of cases decided by the African human rights bodies): http://caselaw.ihrda.org/

SIDERECHOS (an online tool to help monitor implementation developed by Ecuador): http://www.siderechos.gob.ec/app/web/inicio.do

SIMORE (an online tool to help monitor implementation developed by Paraguay): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R-spwu0YXc

Universal Human Rights Index (an online database compiling recommendations from the treaty bodies, the special procedures and the UPR): https://uhri.ohchr.org/en

UPR Info (a database of recommendations from the Universal Periodic Review process): https://www.upr-info.org/en

UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention database (an online tool to search the opinions adopted by the Working Group): https://www.ohchr.org/en/issues/detention/pages/opinionsadoptedbythewgad.aspx

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