Key Human Rights Documents

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

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

Convention on the Rights of the Child

International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees

Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees

Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons

Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness

Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (1963)

Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women

Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities

Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief

Declaration on the Right of Peoples to Peace

Basic Principles for the Treatment of Prisoners

Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment

Declaration on Territorial Asylum (14 December 1967)

Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief

Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families