Monitoring mechanisms

There are over 80 monitoring mechanisms with a human rights remit under the auspices of the United Nations, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the Council of Europe and the EU. This page presents an overview of the different monitoring mechanisms of each organisation.

United Nations

• Treaty Office

UHRI - Universal Human Rights Index

• 10 Human Rights Treaty bodies and 9 core international human rights instruments
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR) - a unique process which involves a review of the human rights records of all UN Member States
• Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council

NORMLEX - International Labour Organization

• Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (ILO-CEACR)

Council of Europe

• Treaty office

• European Court of Human Rights
• European Committee of Social Rights
• European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT)
• European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI)
• Committee of Ministers - Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights
• GRETA - Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings
• GREVIO – Group of Experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence
• Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
• Committee of Experts of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
• Cybercrime Convention Committee (T-CY)
• GRECO - Group of States against Corruption
• Congress of Local and Regional Authorities
• Lanzarote Committee - Committee of the Parties to the Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (T-ES)
• Data Protection - Consultative Committee (T-PD)
• Venice Commission - European Commission for Democracy through Law
• Council of Europe Annual Penal Statistics (SPACE - Statistiques Pénales Annuelles du Conseil de l’Europe)

European Union

CURIA

• Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)

EU Agency for Fundamental Rights

• Survey data and legal/social science analysis results

Publications Office

• EU law - EUR-Lex
• EU Open Data Portal

European Commission

• EU Justice Scoreboard

The sources and databases used for the EFRIS project can also be seen in the image below: