Abstract
This chapter examines monitoring mechanisms which focus specifically on the rights of three sectors of the population who have historically suffered significant discrimination and disadvantage – women, children and people with disabilities. It looks in turn at the UN's Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the UN's Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the UN's Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The use by CEDAW and the CRPD of their 'inquiry' powers illustrates how treaty bodies can usefully complement their monitoring of state reports with investigative methods, here in the contexts of abortion law and of the effects of austerity measures on the rights of disabled people.
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