Treaty body
In international law, a treaty body (or treaty-based body) is an internationally established body of independent experts that monitors how States party to a particular international legal instrument are implementing their obligations under it. == Definitions == The International Law Commission defines an "expert treaty body" as:"a body consisting of experts serving in their personal capacity, which is established under a treaty and is not an organ of an international organization."A research guide published by the UN library lists key characteristics of human rights treaty-based bodies: They "derive their existence from provisions contained in a specific legal instrument", They hold more narrow mandates, being often limited to the set of powers codified in the treaty establishing them, The audiences that treaty bodies address are limited to countries having ratified the legal instrument (as opposed to UN agencies which enjoy a quasi-universal audience), Their decision-making often involves consensus.