text: 14. The 27 StaEes parties having five or nore overdue reports each as aE I June 1985 are listed belou,A/ 40 / 600 Engl ish Page 6 State party Caneroon Chad Dorni ni.can Republic Ecuador ca bon canbi.a Gui.n€a Guyana Janaica I€banon Liber ia Libyan Arab Janahir iya Mal i Nepal Panana Peru Philippines Rona ni a Seneqal Sierra Leone Sonalia Sri Lanka su r inane swa zi Land Trinidad and Tobago United Republic of Tanzania zaireNumber of overdue reporEg 6 5 5 6 7 I |.I IO f, 8 II 5 5 6 6 6 5 I 6 5 5 6 5 1l 15. The breakdoun by Uniteal Nalions regional groups of Statee is the totlor,rtng:African SCates 14, Asian States 4, Eastern European States I, Latin AnericanStatea I, WesEern European and oEher Stales none. 16. The following table presents intornation on t.heChe five UniEed Nalions convenlions on hurnan rightsStates parties to the conventions and inaticates (inunder €ach i ns trunen!.reporling obligations under currenEly in force, lists the parentheses) overdue reportsA/40/600 English Page 7 Table. (As at I June 1985) Internatlonal Covenant on Economlc, SociaL and Cultural Rightsfnternatlonal Covenant on CiviI and Pollt ical Rlghtslnternational Convention on the Ellnlnatlon of AlL Forn6of Racial Discr lninationlnternational conventlon on the Supprese ion and Punishnentof the Cllne or lPg4!s:gConventlon on the EliniDEtion of A11 Forrns of Discr imlnat ion ag61n9t wo[en Bttry lnto force 3 Jan. 1976 23 uar . !976'l .tan. 1959 18 ,tuly 19763 Sept. 1981 Perlodlcity of rePorting ! InltiaI Thereafter6-year cycleg-year cycleI year 5 yearsI year 2 years2 yeara 2 yearal year 4 yeara ry AfghanlEtan AIger ia Antlgua and Barbuala trrgentlna Australla Austrla Bahanas Banglailech BarbadoE Balgiun Benin Bhutan BoLivia BotaeanaBrarll Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundl Byelorusslan Soviet Sociallst Republlc caneroon Canada cape verde Central African ReIrublic chaat chile china Colombia Congox (1)
analysis: The text appears to be related to international human rights and the reporting obligations of states parties to various United Nations conventions. The focus is on the number of overdue reports submitted by states, and the text provides a breakdown of the states by region. This suggests that the category should be related to human rights or international cooperation.