Reports on UN Human Rights Treaties and Other Documents

• List of Publications
• Schedule for submission of Canada's Reports to the United Nations
• Multilateral treaties in the area of human rights to which Canada is a Party (as of October 30, 2002)

In addition to supporting the principles enunciated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Canada has ratified the six United Nations human rights treaties and submitted reports on its implementation of each of these treaties.

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
  Adopted and proclaimed by the UN general Assembly on December 10, 1948.

• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). Accession by Canada in May 1976.Text of the Covenant, the first optional protocol and the views of the UN Committee on the merit of communications against Canada, Canada's most recent reports and the UN Committee conclusions on these reports.

• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). Ratified by Canada in May 1976. Text of the Covenant, Canada's most recent reports and the UN Committee conclusions on these reports.

• International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD). Accession by Canada in October 1970. Text of the Convention, Canada's most recent reports and the UN Committee conclusions on these reports.

• Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Ratified by Canada in December 1991. Text of the Convention, the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (ratified by Canada in July 2000), and the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography (ratified by Canada in September 2005), Canada's reports and the UN Committee conclusions on these reports.

• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). Ratified by Canada in December 1981. Text of the Convention, the optional protocol, Canada's most recent reports and the UN Committee's conclusions on these reports.

• Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT).Ratified by Canada in June 1987. Text of the Convention, Canada's most recent reports and the UN Committee's conclusions on these reports.

Other Reports

• Core Document Forming Part of the Reports of States Parties (submitted to the UN in October 1997) Basic reference document on Canada's political system for use by United Nations human rights committees reviewing Canada's reports.

Research Aids

• Table of Concordances of human rights treaties. The provisions of different treaties often overlap and reinforce each other. A table is provided which shows the links among provisions of different Conventions and Covenants.