Human Rights Bodies

This section contains an overview of the bodies tasked with protecting and promoting human rights at both the international and regional levels. It also provides guidances on where detailed information about the structure, purpose and activities of these bodies may be found.

International - United Nations

• Human Rights Council
• Human Rights Committee
• Economic and Social Council
• Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
• Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination of Women
• Committee against Torture
• Committee on the Rights of the Child
• Committee on Migrant Workers
• Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Europe

• European Court of Human Rights

The Americas

• Inter-American Court of Human Rights
• Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Africa

• African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights

Middle East

• Arab League Commission of Inquiry

Asia

• Asian Human Rights Commission