IV. Human Rights

Reference Sources:

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:

"The Republic of South Africa declares that it recognises, for the purposes of article 41 of the Covenant, the competence of the Human Rights Committee to receive and consider communications to the effect that a State Party claims that another State Party is not fulfilling its obligations under present the Covenant."

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:
 

"The Republic of South Africa-

(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:
 

"[The Republic of South Africa declares that] it recognises, for the purposes of article 30 of the Convention, the competence of the International Court of Justice to settle a dispute between two or more State Parties regarding the interpretation or application of the Convention, respectively."
 

 

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