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

The Correct Option is (C): Monitor human rights treaties.

Answer 2

This question tests the function of human rights treaty bodies, the committees of independent experts set up under the core UN human rights treaties.

1. Draft human rights treaties: Drafting a treaty is done by states and specially convened drafting bodies or conferences before the treaty exists, treaty bodies are only created once a treaty has already entered into force, so drafting is not their function.
2. Negotiate human rights treaties: Negotiation, like drafting, happens among states during the treaty-making process, before a treaty body is even established, this is not a role treaty bodies perform.
3. Monitor human rights treaties: Each core UN human rights treaty establishes a committee of independent experts, such as the Human Rights Committee for the ICCPR, whose job is to monitor implementation by reviewing state reports, issuing general comments, and, in many cases, considering individual complaints, this matches the function described in the question.
4. Amend human rights treaties: Amending a treaty is a formal process requiring state parties to agree to changes, it is not something the monitoring committees themselves are empowered to do.

Treaty bodies exist after a treaty is already in force, and their core mandate is oversight, checking that states are actually complying with the obligations they accepted, which is what "monitoring" means here.

So the correct answer is Monitor human rights treaties.