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.
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.
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) is a multilateral treaty adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 16 1966.