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The Human Rights Index for the Arab Countries

The Human Rights Index for the Arab Countries, sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme on Governance in the Arab Region (UNDP-POGAR), is a repository for the entire set of United Nations documents pertaining to human rights and the responses, including reservations, by the Arab member states to the committees that monitor the core international human rights treaties. There are seven of these human rights treaty bodies, which meet regularly to monitor the implementation of the respective treaties:

- The Human Rights Committee
- Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Committee against Torture
- Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- Committee on Migrant Workers

The Human Rights Index includes the date of each Arab country's adoption of each treaty, coupled with any reservations, and its responses to periodic reports of the pertinent international committee monitoring the application of the respective treaty. Reservations are referenced by article of the international convention in question, so as to clarify the country's precise stance on the matter.

Indexed by source, topic, country, and date, the web interface facilitates cross-country comparisons of progress in adopting international human rights standards. It also provides information about non-government organizations that may be working for the human rights involving any or all of the seven international committees.