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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]

Human Rights, Treaty Bodies

Peter-Tobias Stoll

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Encyclopedia entries
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Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law [MPIL]

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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]
Article last updated:
May 2008

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 12 February 2025

Subject(s):
Civil and political rights — Economic, social, and cultural rights — International organizations, practice and procedure

Published under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law under the direction of Professor Anne Peters (2021–) and Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum (2004–2020). 

1 Human rights treaty bodies are bodies composed of independent experts, which monitor the implementation of human rights instruments (Human Rights, Domestic Implementation). So far, seven such bodies exist at universal level and a number of them have been established within regional human rights systems. Each relates to one fundamental human rights treaty. Human rights treaty bodies mirror the treaty-based structure of the ‘international bill of human rights’. In contrast to the so-called charter-based United Nations (UN) human rights institutions, such as the UN...
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