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Committee Against Torture (CAT)

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A body of human rights experts that monitors implementation of the Convention by State parties. The Committee is one of eight UN-linked human rights treaty bodies. All state parties are obliged under ...

Committee On The Rights Of The Child (CRC)

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A body of independent experts that monitors and reports on implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child by governments that ratify the Convention. (1) The Committee also ...

Committee On Social Economic And Cultural Rights

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A United Nations body of 18 experts that meets three times a year to consider the five-yearly reports submitted by UN member states on their compliance with the International Covenant on Economic, ...

Convention On The Elimination Of All Forms Of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)

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An international convention adopted in 1979 by the United Nations General Assembly. Described as an international bill of rights for women, it came into force on 3 September 1981. The United States ...

Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS)

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A Community Court of Justice created by a protocol signed in 1991 and was later included in Article 6 of the Revised Treaty of the Community in 1993. However, the Court didn't officially begin ...

Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals

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The subsequent nuremberg trials were a series of twelve U. S. Military tribunals for war crimes against surviving members of the military, political, and economical leadership of Nazi Germany, held ...

International Military Tribunal

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The nuremberg trials which were a series of military tribunals, held by the main victorious Allied forces of World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, ...