8.2 Treaty Bodies and Their Complaint Procedures (CERD · HRC · CESCR · CEDAW · CAT · CRC ·

CMW · Committee on Disability) The Frame: The Two Machineries The UN's double machinery: the Charter-based organs (working from the UN Charter's own authority — the Council, the UPR, the special procedures) and the treaty-based organs (the committees created by each treaty — the states-parties' creatures of Unit 7). Beside them: the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) — the system's coordinator and voice; the GA and ECOSOC's historic roles; the mainstreaming mandate (human rights in all UN work — the specialized agencies' faces: the ILO's standards, UNESCO's, WHO's — Unit 4's terrain). The design's logic (the unit's master insight): the world has no human-rights court of general jurisdiction — so the system works through dialogue, naming and assistance (the reports, the reviews, the visits) rather than judgment.