IU Defenders: U.S. Human Rights Treaties Sign and Ratify Drive

IU Defenders calls upon the White House/U.S. Senate

to sign/ratify the following human rights treaties:


Convention on the Rights of the Child, New York, 20 November 1989


Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, New York, 13 December 2006


· Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, New York, 13 December 2006


· International Convention against Apartheid in Sports (New York 10 December 1985)


· International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (New York, 20 December 2006)


· International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families, New York, 18 December 1990.


· Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (New York, 15 December 1989


· Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, New York, 18 December 1979


· Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, New York, 6 October 1999


· Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, New York, 18 December 2002