Treaties and Treaty Bodies

Treaties

Treaties are formal agreements between two or more States.  Treaties are legally binding, and so States are obligated to comply with them.

Treaties describe different types of human rights and what States must do to realise these rights

Treaty Bodies
Treaty bodies are Committees set up by some treaties to monitor the way States implement the rights contained in the treaty. The treaty bodies monitor how States put the treaty rights into practice. 

The members of the treaty bodies are experts appointed by Sates Parties.  Some treaty bodies also accept complaints of human rights violations from individuals or groups. An example of a treaty body is the UN Human Rights Committee.