Hello,
In this topic, I will talk about social intelligence.

For me, there are two main types of social intelligence:

• fundamental social intelligence: the rights of citizens (the 9 core instruments)
  
• secondary social intelligence: the common fight against global warming (the Paris agreements), waste management, ethics (the 2005 bioethics convention)...

I'm going to talk about fundamental social intelligence.

According to OHCHR, there are 9 core international human rights instruments:

• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD, 21 December, 1965)
  
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR, 16 December, 1966)
  
• International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR, 16 December, 1966)
  
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW, 18 December, 1979)
  
• Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT, 10 December, 1984)
  
• Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC, 20 November, 1989)
  
• International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (ICMW, 18 December, 1990)
  
• International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CPED, 20 December, 2006)
  
• Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD, 13 December, 2006)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_human_rights_instruments

These instruments have been signed by many countries, but they are not always ratified.

Here is for example the map concerning the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination:



Signed and ratified
Signed but not ratified
Neither signed



Here are some questions that I think are important:

What happens if a country breaks one of these conventions?
Is there a supra-national institution responsible for ensuring that the commitments made by the countries are respected?
Are all these conventions worthless?

We will try to answer them together.

This post was edited by Chevaucheur on May 21 2018 06:30am

Stop.

National sovereignty is king for so long as gross inequality exists.

What inequality are you talking about?