The United States has signed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on 30 July 2009, but has not ratified it

The United States has not accepted the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

The United States has signed and ratified:

  • Convention against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
  • International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
  • International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
  • Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict
  • Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children child prostitution and child pornography

The United States has signed, but not ratified

  • Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
  • International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  • Convention on the Rights of the Child

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