The human rights at stake in these matters include those protected in domestic law via the Human Rights Act 1998, and in international human rights treaties which the UK has ratified. This includes the UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled People (CRPD), the UN Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (commonly known as the Istanbul Convention), and the Council of Europe Optional Protocol on the Prevention of Torture (OpCAT) .