This session examines several UN human rights mechanisms that investigate and respond to complaints submitted by organizations and individuals, and provides guidance on how to write a complaint to a UN human rights monitor.
The United Nations Convention Against Torture is an international human rights treaty designed to prevent torture and all forms of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment worldwide.
This treaty of the United Nations outlines the standards of marriage. It reaffirms the consensual nature of marriages and requires the parties to establish a minimum marriage age by law and to ensure the registration of marriages.
The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is an international treaty adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1979.
