CHAPTER THREE: DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL GOVERNANCE __________________________________________________________________________ Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 23 March 1976 12 March 1992 7 July 1995 12 March 1992 22 April 1954 4 April 1962 4 October 1967 9 December 1969 9 December 1964 23 June 1965 4 January 1969 30 November 2001 3 September 1981 12 March 1992 26 June 1976 12 March 1992 18 July 1976 21 November 1974 2 September 1990 30 August 1990 16 December 1966 The Slavery Convention 25 September 1926, and amended by the 7 September 1953 Protocol Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees 28 July 1951 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees 31 January 1967 Convention on the Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages 10 December 1962 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 21 December 1965 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 18 December 1979 Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 10 December 1984 International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid 10 December 1973 Convention on the Rights of the Child 20 November 1989 Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict Ratified Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography Ratified 30 March 2004 30 March 2004 61