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Core United Nations Human Rights Instruments: Their Ratification Status

This repository contains data on the ratification of the core United Nations human rights instruments. The data was extrapolated from the United Nations Treaty Collection's webpage.

NOTE: These files does not include all state parties to the convention. They only measure UN member states' willingness to ratify these legal instruments.

Legal Instruments:

  • ICERD: International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1965)
  • ICCPR: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)
  • ICESCR: International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966)
  • CEDAW: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979)
  • CAT: Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984)
  • CRC: Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)
  • ICMW: International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (1990)
  • CPED: International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (2006)
  • CRPD: Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006)
  • ICESCR-OP: Optional Protocol to the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2008)
  • ICCPR-OP1: Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)
  • ICCPR-OP2: Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Aiming at the Abolition of the Death Penalty (1989)
  • OP-CEDAW: Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1999)
  • OP-CRC-AC: Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (2000)
  • OC-CRC-SC: Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography (2000)
  • OP-CRC-IC: Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure (2011)
  • OP-CAT: Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (2002)
  • OP-CRPD: Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006)

Variables:

All the files use the same data structure:

  • iso2 - Represents the ISO2 code for the U.N. member state.
  • member - The name of the UN member state, usually in the English language.
  • state party - It is a dichotomous variable: 1 equals the member's ratification of the treaty.
  • year ratification or accession - This is the year the member state ratified the the convention.
  • signatory - A dichotomous variable that captures whether a state that has not ratified the treaty has signed it.
  • no action - A dichotomous variable: 1 equals a state which has not signed or ratified the convention.
  • status - The variable captures describes UN member state's status regarding the convention. It offers three options: state party, signatory state or no action.
  • notes - Text explaining a particular observation.

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This repository includes a group of CSV files tracking the ratification status of the UN's core human rights instruments.

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