Belgium signed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on 30 March 2007 and ratified on 02 July 2009

Belgium has signed and ratified:

  • Convention against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
  • Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
  • International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
  • International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  • Convention on the Rights of the Child
  • Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict
  • International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
  • Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights aiming to the abolition of the death penalty
  • Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
  • International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
  • Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict

Belgium signed but not ratified:

  • Optional Protocol of the Convention against Torture

For more information: http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/TreatyBodyExternal/Treaty.aspx

I. Country Report:  SR

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