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International human rights instruments are designed to provide a legally, morally and politically binding framework for the protection and promotion of human rights. A distinction must be made between those instruments that are legally binding (treaties,covenants, statutes, protocols and conventions) and those which, though influential exist prmailiry as moral and political statements such as declarations, principles, guidelines, standard rules and recommendations.

International Bill of Rights

 * Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) (UN, 1948)


 * International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
 * First 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 Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)

Major United Nations Human Rights Instruments
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 * Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide


 * Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD)


 * Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)


 * Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women


 * Convention Against Torture (CAT)


 * Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
 * Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees
 * Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)


 * First Optional Protocol: Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict


 * Second Optional Protocol: Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography


 * International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance


 * International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (MWC)

Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Minorities
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Rights of Persons with Disabilities

 * Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

International Humanitarian Law

 * First Geneva Convention - for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field
 * Second Geneva Convention - for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea
 * Third Geneva Convention - relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
 * Fourth Geneva Convention - relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War
 * First Protocol to the Geneva Conventions Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts
 * Second Protocol to the Geneva Conventions; and Relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts

Africa

 * African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights
 * Protocol to the African Charter on the Establishment of the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights
 * Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol)
 * African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
 * Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa

Americas

 * American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man (OAS, 1948)
 * American Convention on Human Rights("Pact of San Jose")
 * Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture
 * Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons
 * Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence against Women
 * Inter-American Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities

Council of Europe

 * Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings
 * European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML)
 * European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)
 * European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT)
 * Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM)
 * European Social Charter (ESC), and Revised Social Charter

European Union

 * Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union

Organisation of the Islamic Conference

 * Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam

General Instruments

 * Charter of the United Nations
 * Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties

Statutes of International Courts

 * Statute of the International Court of Justice
 * Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
 * Statute of the International Tribunal for Rwanda
 * Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

Declarations

 * Declaration of the Rights of the Child 1923
 * Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action (World Conference on Human Rights, 1993)
 * Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UN, 2007)
 * UN declaration on sexual orientation and gender identity (UN, 2008)

Global

 * International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid (ICSPCA)
 * Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees
 * Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
 * Convention Against Torture (CAT)
 * Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD)
 * Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
 * Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
 * Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
 * International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
 * Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (ILO 169)