Key Terms
This is the basic rights and freedoms that belong to every person.
What are human rights?
This document was adopted in 1948.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)?
Which treaty protects refugees?
Refugee Convention
I protect women from discrimination.
CEDAW
How many documents make up the International Bill of Human Rights?
Three
This is a legally binding agreement between two or more countries.
What is a treaty?
Name the three documents that make up the International Bill of Human Rights.
Which treaty protects children?
CRC
I say all peoples have the right to self-determination.
ICCPR
How old is a child under the CRC?
Under 18 years
This term describes an agreement between only two countries.(2)
What is a bilateral treaty?
Which document protects civil and political rights?
ICCPR
Which treaty protects people with disabilities?
CRPD
I contain the principle of non-refoulement.
Refugee Convention
What principle prevents refugees from being returned to persecution?
Non-refoulement
This is the formal process where Australia agrees to be legally bound by an international treaty.
What is ratification?
Which document protects economic, social and cultural rights?
ICESCR
Which treaty completely prohibits torture?
CAT
I was created after World War II and am not legally binding.
UDHR
List the first four steps in Australia's treaty ratification process.
This legal principle gives a country the authority to govern itself without outside interference.
What is sovereignty?
Give one example of a right protected by the ICCPR and one protected by the ICESCR.
Examples:
ICCPR
ICESCR
Match each treaty with the group it protects.
ICERD → racial discrimination
CEDAW → women
CRPD → disability
CRC → children
Australia implemented many of my obligations through the Racial Discrimination Act.
ICERD
Without looking at your notes, list all six principal treaties.