Democratic Republic of the Congo

Status of International legal instruments (signatory, ratification): See treaty body sites: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/Pages/TreatyBodies.aspx

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights – 1976

Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women – 1986

International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination – 1976

Convention on the Rights of the Child – 1990

ILO Convention concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries (169) – Not ratified

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – yes

Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (OP-ICESCR) – 2008; Signed in 2010