Manual on human rights reporting : under six major international human rights instruments / [cosponsored by] Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva ; United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) ; United Nations Staff College Project, Turin.

Geneva : United Nations, 1997.

xiii, 537 pages ; 30 cm

Revision of the 1991 Manual on human rights reporting ... "owing to the need to include a new chapter relating to the Convention on the Rights of the Child ..., as well as to reflect the numerous procedural and other changes that have been adopted by the various committees since its publication"--Preface, p. iii.
Covers reporting obligations under the following treaties: (i) International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; (ii) International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; (iii) International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination; (iv) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women; (v) Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; (vi) Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Provides for each U.N. monitored human rights treaty article by article guidance for government officials in the preparation and submission of reports periodically due by every States party (p. 65-504).
Includes the text of relevant treaty articles, pertinent general comments, guidelines, etc. adopted by the various monitoring committees, and brief commentaries on the treaty articles, written by various members of U.N. human rights committees.
Annex 1: Report-writing procedures within the ILO: Overview and interactions with human rights report-writing procedures within the framework of the United Nations (p. 523-537).
U.N. document symbol: HR/PUB/91/1 (Rev.1).
U.N. sales no.: GV.E.97.0.16.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 511-518).

Human rights reporting.

KZ4974 .M36 1997

English

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