Bahamas

The Bahamas signed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on 24 September 2013 and ratified it on 28 September 2015

The Bahamas has signed and ratified:

  • International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
  • International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  • Convention on the Rights of the Child

The Bahamas has ratified, but not signed:

  • Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
  • 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 Bahamas has signed, but not ratified:

  • Convention against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

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

I. CAT:
Ratification: Signed in December 2008

II. CCPR:
Ratification: December 2008 

III. CEDAW:
Ratification: October 1993

IV. CESCR:
Ratification: December 2008 

V. CRC:
Ratification: February 1991