• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR);8 • International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR);9 • Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC);10 • Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)11 and • Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (Refugees Convention).12 The international humanitarian treaties collectively referred to as the Geneva Conventions and their two Additional Protocols, are also relevant to torture. These treaties are: • Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field;13 • Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea;14 • Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War;15 6 Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 39/46 of 10 December 1984, entry into force 26 June 1987. 7 Adopted on 18 December 2002 by General Assembly resolution A/RES/57/199. OPCAT was available for signature, ratification and accession as from 4 February 2003. 8 Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 2200A (XXI) of 16 December 1966, entry into force 23 March 1976. 9 Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 2200A (XXI) of 16 December 1966, entry into force 3 January 1976. 10 Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 44/25 of 20 November 1989, entry into force 2 September 1990. 11 Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 34/180 of 18 December 1979, entry into force 3 September 1981. 12 Adopted on 28 July 1951 by the United Nations Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Status of Refugees and Stateless Persons convened under General Assembly resolution 429 (V) of 14 December 1950, entry into force 22 April 1954. 13 Adopted on 12 August 1949 by the Diplomatic Conference for the Establishment of International Conventions for the Protection of Victims of War, held in Geneva from 21 April to 12 August 1949 for the purpose of revising the Geneva Convention for the Relief of the Wounded and Sick in Armies in the Field of July 27, 1929, entry into force 21 October 1951. 14 Adopted on 12 August 1949 by the Diplomatic Conference for the Establishment of International Conventions for the Protection of Victims of War, held in Geneva from 21 April to 12 August 1949 for the purpose of revising the Xth Hague Convention of October 18, 1907 for the Adaptation to Maritime Warfare of the Principles of the Geneva Convention of 1906, entry into force 21 October 1951. 15 Adopted on 12 August 1949 by the Diplomatic Conference for the Establishment of International Conventions for the Protection of Victims of War, held in Geneva from 21 April to 12 August 1949 for the purpose of revising 7