Belgium

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