Introduction
The significance of international law
Sarah Pritchard
Linking international standards with contemporary concerns of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
Mick Dodson
The UN Charter-based human rights system
The UN Charter-based human rights system: an overview
Garth Nettheim
Working Group on Indigenous Populations: mandate, standard-setting activities and future perspectives
Sarah Pritchard
The UN treaty-based human rights system and individual complaints
The UN treaty-based human rights system: an overview
Hilary Charlesworth
Individual complaints: an overview and admissibility requirements
Hilary Charlesworth
Individual complaints: historical perspectives and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Philip Alston
Individual communications under the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Elizabeth Evatt
Individual communications: the Convention against Torture and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
Michael O’Flaherty
The UN treaty-based human rights system and periodic reporting
Periodic reporting: the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Philip Alston
Periodic reporting: the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
Elizabeth Evatt
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination:non-governmental input and the early warning and urgent procedure
Michael O’Flaherty
Indigenous peoples and some relevant human rights standards
Substantive provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
Michael O’Flaherty
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Indigenous peoples
Sarah Pritchard
Select bibliography
Appendices
Model communication
Example of Secretariat reply to an individual communication
Extract from Rules of Procedure of the Human Rights Committee
Extract from Rules of Procedure of the Committee against Torture
Extract from Rules of Procedure of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination