204 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT) Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women Committee against Torture Founding treaty Human Rights Committee Human rights treaty body 66 | Chapter 10: The treaty-based system: An overview Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (which allows for individual complaints and inquiries) Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (which allows for individual complaints) Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (which allows for individual complaints) Optional protocol(s) to founding treaty 23 Ten 1987 18 18 18 Current number of members 1982 1970 1985 1977 Date established Four-yearly Four-yearly Two-yearly None specified but usually fiveyearly Three-tofive-yearly, at discretion of Committee Periodicity of reporting Two sessions a year of two or three weeks each plus a week’s pre-sessional working group on each occasion Two or three sessions a year of two weeks each plus a week’s pre-sessional working group on each occasion Two sessions a year of three weeks each Two sessions a year of three weeks each Three sessions a year of three weeks each Sessions International Human Rights and the International Human Rights System A Manual for National Human Rights Institutions Table 10.1: Treaty monitoring bodies204 Table developed from Working with the United Nations Human Rights Programme: A Handbook for Civil Society; Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; 2008.