International Instruments

World Conferences:

Vienna Declaration, World Conference on Human Rights
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/l1viedec.html

UN Millennium Declaration
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/millennium.html

Rights of the Child

Declaration of the Rights of the Child
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/k1drc.htm

Convention on the Rights of the Child
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/k2crc.htm

Convention Concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour (ILO 182)
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/ilo182.html

Optional Protocol to the Conventions on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/childprotsale.html



Marriage:

Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/o1ccmar.htm

Recommendations on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/o2rcmar.htm


Slavery-like Practices:

Convention Concerning Forced or Compulsory Labour
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/childprotsale.html

Migration for Employment (Revised) (ILO No. 97)
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/migrationemployment.html

Abolition of Forced Labour
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/n2ilo105.htm

International Convention on Protection of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/n8icprmw.htm



Trafficking, Smuggling and Migration:

Protocol to Prevent, Supress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, Supplementing the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/trafficking.html

Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/trafficinperson.htm

UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/organizedcrime.html

Protocol Against Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air Supplementing the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/smuggling.html

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Trafficking
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/traffickingGuidelinesHCHR.html



Women's Human Rights:

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/e1cedaw.htm

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/cedawopprot-2000.html

Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/e3dpwcea.htm

Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/e4devw.htm

Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action - Fourth World Conference on Women
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/e5dplw.htm



International Bills of Rights:

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/b1udhr.htm

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/b3ccpr.htm

Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/b4ccprp1.htm

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/b2esc.ht