Sources for Key Human Rights Documents
Human Rights Documents and Treaties:
Prinicpal United Nations Human Rights Treaties and Declarations:
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
- International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid
- International Convention against Apartheid in Sports
- Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention
- Equal Remuneration Convention
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
- Convention on the Politicial Rights of Women
- Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflicts
- Optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
- Slavery Convention
- Protocol amending the Slavery Convention
- Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade,and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery
- Forced Labour Convention
- Abolition of Forced Labour Convention
- Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others
- Convention on the International Right of Correction
- Freedom of Assocation and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention
- Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention
- Workers' Representatives Convention
- Labour Relations (Public Service) Convention
- Employment Policy Convention
- Convention (No. 154) concerning the Promotion of Collective Bargaining
- Convention (No. 168) concerning Employment Promotion and Protection against Unemployment
- Convention (No. 169) concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries
- Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages
- International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
- Convention on the Nationality of Married Women
- Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness
- Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons
- Convention relating to the Status of Refugees
- Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees
- Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
- Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity