India

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 – Signature: NA, Ratification/Accession: 1979
• Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women – Signature: 1980, Ratification/Accession: 1993
• International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination –  Signature: 1967, Ratification/Accession: 1968
• Convention on the Rights of the Child – Signature: NA, Ratification/Accession: 1992
• ILO Convention concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries (169) –  Not Ratified
• United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – Yes