Austria signed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on 30 March 2007 and ratified it on 26 September 2008

Austria signed the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on 06 September 2000 and ratified it on 06 May 2004

Austria 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
  • 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. CESCR:
Ratification: July 1987 OP: Signed in September 2003
Disability analysis of reports related to the last review:
Concluding Observations
State report and other reports    
IDA recommendations for Concluding Observations 

II. CRPD:
Ratification: September 2008 OP: September 2008
State Report
Austria has extended a standing invitation to Special Procedures
Last Country visits: Independent Expert on Cultural Rights

III. UPR:
Disability analysis of reports related to the last review: 
UPR Working Group Report and other reports     
IDA Recommendations 

IV. Adoption Concluding Observations:
Sep 2013
Concluding Observations
List of Issues

V. Country Report
SR

VI. DPOs/NGOs Reports:
Austrian Civil Society Organizations

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