East Timor Project

East Timor and the United Nations Instruments

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (CCPR)
http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/ccpr.htm
Status: Accession
Date of Signature: 18/09/2003
Date of Receipt of Instrument by the UN: 18/09/2003
Date of entry into force: 18/12/2003

Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (CCPR-OP2-DP)
http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/ccpr-death.htm
Status: Accession
Date of Receipt of Instrument by the UN: 18/09/2003
Date of entry into force: 18/12/2003

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/cedaw.htm
Status: Accession
Date of Receipt of Instrument by the UN: 16/04/2003
Date of entry into force: 16/05/2003

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW-OP)
http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/cedaw-one.htm
Status: Accession
Date of Receipt of Instrument by the UN: 16/04/2003
Date of entry into force: 16/07/2003

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/cescr.htm
Status: Accession
Date of Receipt of Instrument by the UN: 16/04/2003
Date of entry into force: 16/07/2003

Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT)
http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/cat.htm
Status: Accession
Date of Receipt of Instrument by the UN: 16/04/2003
Date of entry into force: 16/05/2003

Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture and Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT-OP)
http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/cat-one.htm
Status: Signature only
Date of Signature: 16/09/2005

International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/cerd.htm
Status: Accession
Date of Receipt of Instrument by the UN: 16/04/2003
Date of entry into force: 16/05/2003
East Timor and the United Nations Instruments

International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (CMW)
http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/cmw.htm
Status: Accession
Date of Receipt of Instrument by the UN: 30/01/2004
Date of entry into force: 01/05/2004

Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/crc.htm
Status: Accession
Date of Receipt of Instrument by the UN: 16/04/2003
Date of entry into force: 16/05/2003

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict (CRP-OP-AC)

http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/crc-conflict.htm
Status: Accession
Date of Receipt of Instrument by the UN: 02/08/2004
Date of entry into force: 02/09/2004

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children child prostitution and child pornography (CRC-OP-SC)

http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/crc-sale.htm
Status: Accession
Date of Receipt of Instrument by the UN: 16/04/2003
Date of entry into force: 16/05/2003

International Criminal Court (ICC)
http://www.iccnow.org/

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Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (CCPR-OP1):
http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/ccpr-one.htm

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