The United Nations most effective tool for protecting human rights is the 9 Human Rights Treaties. The UN currently has nine human rights treaties: the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR); the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR); the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD); the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW); the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT); the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC); and the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Family. The International Convention for the protection of all persons with disabilities ad the Int. Convention for the protection of all persons from enforced disappearance. These treaty bodies also have their respective committeesWhen a country ratifies a treaty, it assumes a legal obligation to implement the rights recognized in that treaty.Six of the Committees (CCPR, CERD, CAT, CEDAW, CRPD, and CED,) receive petitions from individuals. As a requisite the individual must exhaust all the available domestic remedies in his country or the local plain, before his petition can be considered for admission, failure to exhaust all domestic remedies would render the claim inadmissible. These treaties are effective tools that The United Nations can utilize in the promotion of Human Rights.In LK vs Netherlands, a discrimination case of a disabled Moroccan Man who received hateful racial slurs from a Dutch community he was visiting, the local courts in Netherland decided that there was no racial discrimination, exhausting domestic remedies and failing to get reliet.LK escalated the matter to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination(CERD)to seek redress, cerd ruled that the racial comments made by the local Dutch community constituted racial discrimination. Committee concluded that the State should review its policy and procedures in reference to racial discrimination.The treaty bodies can provide Interim relief or provisional remedies, which are considered "views" or soft laws, and some argue that these soft laws and as suck lack force, however I strongly believe that these laws have strong moral effects that puts pressure on countries. No country would want to have their short comings espoused and to have the entire world for it's audience. These treaty bodies have a strong moral and persuasive effect that often "shames", under the treaty a country's policy and implementation of laws relating to human rights are put into the lime light, countries are expected to adhere to the guiding principles or respect, protect and fulfil. Countries that have failed to comply with the treaties and as such they are the most effective tool for the United Nations for protecting human rights