Question

Human Rights Treaty Bodies:

• A. Draft human rights treaties
• B. Negotiate human rights treaties
• C. Monitor human rights treaties
• D. Amend human rights treaties

Answer 1

The Correct Option is C

It helps to think about the life of a treaty in stages: first it is drafted and negotiated by states, then it is adopted and ratified, and only after that does a treaty body come into existence to watch over how it is being followed.

1. Drafting: happens at the very first stage, carried out by states and diplomatic conferences, long before any monitoring committee exists.
2. Negotiating: is also part of that early stage, where states hammer out the actual text of the treaty, again before a treaty body is set up.
3. Monitoring: is the stage treaty bodies actually operate in, once the treaty is in force, the committee reviews periodic state reports, issues recommendations, and tracks whether the treaty's obligations are being honoured.
4. Amending: a treaty is a separate formal process controlled by the state parties themselves, not a power given to the monitoring committee.

The correct answer is Monitor human rights treaties, since that oversight role is the entire reason treaty bodies are created once a treaty enters into force.