Bahrain signed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on 25 June 2007 and ratified it on 22 September 2011

Bahrain has ratified, but not signed:

  • 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
  • Optional Protocol of the Convention against Torture
  • 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

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

I. CAT:
Ratification: March 1998
CAT Table: NR: TBS, LCO: 2005

II. CCPR:
Ratification: September 2006

III. CEDAW:
Ratification: June 2002  
CEDAW Table: NR: Feb 2014, LCO: 2008

IV. CESCR:
Ratification: September 2007 

V. CRC:
Ratification: February 1992, OPAC: September 2004, OPSC: September 2004
Disability analysis of reports related to the last review:
Concluding Observations   
State Report and other reports    
IDA Recommendations for Concluding Observations
CRC Table: NR: TBS, LCO: 2011

VI. UPR:
Disability analysis of reports related to the last review: 
UPR Working Group and other reports  
UPR Table: NR: TBS, LR: 2012

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