protection and promotion of human rights. TITLE I: LEGAL FRAMEWORK A. Legal human rights instruments ratified by Mali 18. The Republic of Mali is party to several international legal human rights instruments. Among others, these are as follows: 1- At the International Level: - - the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights and its first Optional Protocol; the International Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination; the Convention on the Rights of the Child; the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and its Optional Protocol; the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families; the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and its Optional Protocol; the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict; the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography; the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols I and II; the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide; the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees and its Protocol; the International Convention against Doping in Sport; the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court; the core Conventions of the International Labour Organization, particularly Conventions No. 4, 6, 29, 87, 98, 100, 105, 111, 138 and 182 ; the core Conventions of UNESCO, and more particularly the Convention against Discrimination in Education; the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol, and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. 2- At the Regional Level: - the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights; the African Charter on the Rights and Well-Being of the Child; 12