Monitoring instruments and complaints procedures contained in the UN Human Rights Treaties vis à vis the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
| Multilateral treaty (acronym, year of adoption); optional protocols | State reporting obligations (in years after acceding) | Expert committee | Additional complaints procedures | ||||
| Monitoring by expert committee | Number and lengths of sessions | Individual complaints/communications | Interstate complaints | Enquiries (by the committee) | Other | ||
| UN human rights treaties | |||||||
| International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD, 1965) | One or more every 2 years | Yes | Two per year, 3 weeks each | Yes | Yes | – | Early warnings |
| International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR, 1966) and two optional protocols | One year after acceding then upon request, usually every 4 years | Yes | Three per year, 3 weeks each | Yes | Yes | – | – |
| International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR, 1966) and one optional protocol | Two or more every 5 years | Yes | Two per year, 3 weeks plenary and 1 week working group prior to session | Yes | – | – | – |
| Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW, 1979) | One or more upon request (at least every 4 years) | Yes | One per year, maximum 2 weeks | Yes | – | Yes | – |
| Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT, 1984) and one optional protocol | One or more every 4 years | Yes | Two per year, 3 weeks each | Yes | Yes | Yes | Inspections |
| Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC, 1989) and two optional protocols | Two years after acceding, then every 5 years | Yes | Three per year, 3 weeks plenary and 1 week working group prior to session | – | Yes | – | – |
| International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of all Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (ICPMW, 1990) | One or more every 5 years | Yes | Two per year, 1 week each | Yes | – | – | – |
| International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CPED, 2006) | Two or more upon request | Yes | Two per year | Yes | – | – | – |
| Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD, 2006), one optional protocol | Two or more every 4 years | Yes | Two per year, 1 week each | Yes | – | – | – |
| Multilateral public health treaties (WHO) | |||||||
| WHO framework convention on tobacco Control (FCTC, 2003) | Two years after acceding, then every 5 years until 2012, then every 2 years | – | – | – | – | – | – |