A/HRC/20/20 Approval of budgets is the responsibility of Parliament, except in the Sudan, where the national judicial service commission formulates, approves and manages its own budget and that of the judiciary. 44. Some 67.5 per cent of the replies indicated that training centres had their own budget, allowing them to be independent of tribunals, supreme courts and national or high judiciary councils. Costs for the training of judges, prosecutors and public defenders are mostly covered by the same training centres (40 per cent) and/or the judiciary (25 per cent) and/or the executive organ/Ministry of Justice (24 per cent) in courses tailored for their respective functions and offered on the premises of the training centres. The costs of postgraduate courses, however, are paid for by the individuals themselves in almost 90 per cent of cases. 45. The Special Rapporteur observed that, despite the existing financial resources available for training, lack of resources allocated by means of a specific budget is still an impediment to necessary capacity-building programmes. This was a common concern expressed in the replies to the questionnaire. B. Legal framework 46. The United Nations human rights treaties with the highest number of ratifications among the States surveyed were the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. GLOBAL THEMATIC STUDY HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION AND CONTINUING TRAINING OF LEGAL PROFESSIONALS Participating countries - International treaties/instruments and State parties 93,4% 94,0% 91,8% 92,0% 90,0% 86,9% 88,0% 86,9% 86,9% 86,0% % 84,0% 82,0% 82,0% 80,0% 78,0% 76,0% CRC CEDAW ICCPR CERD CAT ICESCR 47. Depending on the constitutional system of each State, international human rights treaties, when ratified, enjoy either the same binding force as the Constitution or infraconstitutional or legal force. The replies obtained indicated that, in 41.9 per cent of participating States, human rights treaties are given infra-constitutional or legally binding force; in 32.3 per cent, constitutional binding force; and in 30.6 per cent, they are given supra-legal status. 13