Date: 16 December 1966
Done at: the General Assembly, New York
Entry into force: 3 January 1976 in accordance
with art. 27
Reference: v993 U.N.T.S. p3
Status: signed on 3 October 1994
Date: 16 December 1966
Done at: the General Assembly, New York
Entry into force: 23 March 1976 in accordance
with art. 49 (28 March 1979 for art.41 - Human Rights Committee)
Reference: v999 U.N.T.S. p171
Status: signed on 3 October 1994, ratified on 10 December 1998. Declaration:
Date: 7 March 1966
Done at: New York
Entry into force: 4 January 1969 in accordance
with art. 19
Reference: v660 U.N.T.S. p195
Status: signed on 3 October 1994, ratified on 10
December 1998. Declaration:
(a) declares that, for the purposes of paragraph 1 of article 14 of the Convention, it recognises the competence of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to receive and consider communications from individuals or groups of individuals within the Republic's jurisdiction claiming to be victims of a violation by the Republic in any of the rights set forth in the Convention after having exhausted all domestic remedies
and
(b) indicates that, for the purposes of paragraph 2 of article 14 of the Convention, the South African Human Rights Commission is the body within the Republic's national legal order which shall be competent to receive and consider petitions from individuals or groups of individuals within the Republic's jurisdiction who claim to be victims of any of the rights set forth in the Convention."
Date: 10 December 1984
Done at: the General Assembly, New York
Entry into force: 26 June 1987 in accordance
with art. 27(1)
Reference: v1465 U.N.T.S. p85
Status: signed on 29 January 1993, ratified on
10 December 1998. Declaration:
Date: 20 November 1989
Done at: the General Assembly, New York
Entry into force: 2 September 1990 in accordance
with art. 49(1)
Reference: Doc. A/RES/44/25
Status: signed on 29 January 1993 and ratified
on 16 June 1995
Date: 18 December 1979
Done at: the General Assembly, New York
Entry into force: 3 September 1981 in accordance
with art. 27(1)
Reference: v1249 U.N.T.S. p13
Status: signed on 29 January 1993 and ratified
on 15 December 1995. In force for South Africa on 14 January 1996.
Date: 27 June 1981
Done at: Banjul
Entry into force: 21 October 1986
Reference: OAU Doc. CAB/LEG/67/3 rev.5; 21 I.L.M.
58 (1982)
Status: signed in 1995 and ratified on 9 July 1996
Date: 12 December 1995
Done at: Conference of the State Parties
Not yet in force: par.3 of the res. of the State
Parties and art.50(2) of the Convention.
Reference: Doc. CRC/SP/1995/L.1/Rev.1
Status: Accepted on 5 August 1997
Date: 9 December 1948
Done at: United Nations General Assembly
In force: 12 January 1951 in accordance with
art. XIII
Reference: v78 U.N.T.S. p277
Status: Acceded on 10 December 1998