List of Main Human Rights Instruments Codified by the UN and Status of Ratification for Japan

(Annex 4)

	Name		Adopted	Enforced	Number of state parties	☆	Japan's ratification (date of entry)
1	International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights		1966.12.16	1976. 1. 3	146	A	●(1979. 6.21)
2	International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights		1966.12.16	1976. 3.23	149	A	●(1979. 6.21)
3	Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights		1966.12.16	1976. 3.23	104	A
4	Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights		1989.12.15	1991. 7.11	49	A
5	International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination		1965.12.21	1969. 1. 4	165	A	●(1995.12.15)
6	International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid*		1973.11.30	1976. 7.18	101	C
7	International Convention against Apartheid in Sports		1985.12.10	1988. 4. 3	58	C
8	Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women		1979.12.18	1981. 9. 3	170	A	●(1985. 6.25)
9	Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women		1999.10. 6	2000.12.22	47	A
10	Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide		1948.12. 9	1951. 1.12	133	D
11	Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity		1968.11.26	1970.11.11	45	D
12	Slavery Convention*
	(1)	Slavery Convention of 1926	1926. 9.25	1927. 3. 9	78
		Protocol amending the Slavery Convention of 1926	1953.10.23	1953.12. 7	59	C
	(2)	Amended Slavery Convention of 1926	1953.12.7	1955. 7. 7	95	C
13	Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery		1956. 9. 7	1957. 4.30	119	C
14	Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others		1949.12. 2	1951. 7.25	74	C	●(1958. 5. 1)
15	Convention relating to the Status of Refugees		1951. 7.28	1954. 4.22	140	B	●(1981.10. 3)
16	Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees		1967. 1.31	1967.10. 4	138	B	●(1982. 1. 1)
17	Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness		1961. 8.30	1975.12.13	26	C
18	Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons		1954. 9.28	1960. 6. 6	54	C
19	Convention on the Nationality of Married Women		1957. 1.29	1958. 8.11	70	C
20	Convention on the Political Rights of Women		1953.3.31	1954. 7. 7	115	C	●(1955. 7.13)
21	Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages		1962.11. 7	1964.12. 9	49	C
22	Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment		1984.12.10	1987. 6.26	132	A	●(1999. 6.29)
23	Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment		2002.12.18	not entry into force
24	Convention on the Rights of the Child		1989.11.20	1990. 9. 2	191	A	●(1994. 4.22)
25	Optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict		2000. 5.25	2002.2.12	42	A
26	Optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography		2000. 5.25	2002.1.18	42	A
27	International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families		1990.12.18	not entry into force**	19	A

Sources: Website of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights http://www.unhchr.ch, and Website of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees http://www.unhcr.ch

Remarks: A, B, C and D in the chart indicate OHCHR and the UNHCR survey dates. A: December 9, 2002; B: September 30, 2002; C: February 5, 2002; D: October 9, 2001.

* "Slavery Convention of 1926" was amended in according with the "Protocol amending Slavery Convention of 1926" and became the "Amended Slavery Convention of 1926." To become a party of the Amended Convention, a state shall take either one of the following two steps; 1) ratify the Amended Convention, or 2) ratify the Slavery Convention and accept the Protocol amending the Slavery Convention of 1926.

** Scheduled to come into effect on July 1, 2003.

This chart was made on April 1, 2003 by the Buraku Liberation and Human Rights Research Institute in cooperation with the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Cooperation Division Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs Section