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Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political RightsAdopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession byGeneral Assembly resolution 2200A (XXI) of 16 December 1966entry into force 23 March 1976, in accordance with Article 9 The States Parties to the present Protocol, Considering that in order further to achieve the ...International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by the General Assembly resolution 2200A (XXI) of 16 December 1966 entry into force 23 March 1976, in accordance with Article 49 PreambleThe States Parties to the present Covenant,Considering that, in accordance with the principles proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations, ...International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assemblyresolution 2200A (XXI) of 16 December 1966entry into force 3 January 1976, in accordance with article 27 PreambleThe States Parties to the present Covenant,Considering that, in accordance with the principles proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations, recognition of the ...International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
Adopted and opened for signature and ratification byGeneral Assembly resolution 2106 (XX) of 21 December 1965entry into force 4 January 1969, in accordance with Article 19 The States Parties to this Convention,Considering that the Charter of the United Nations is based on the principles of the dignity and equality inherent in ...Universal Declaration of Human Rights
PREAMBLE Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and ...Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief
Proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 36/55 of 25 November 1981 The General Assembly,Considering that one of the basic principles of the Charter of the United Nations is that of the dignity and equality inherent in all human beings, and that all Member States have pledged themselves to take joint and separate ...Second Optional Protocol Aiming on the Death Penalty
Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, G.A. res. 44/128, annex, 44 U.N. GAOR Supp. (No. 49) at 207, U.N. Doc. A/44/49 (1989), entered into force July 11, 1991. The States Parties to the present Protocol,Believing that abolition ...Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against WomenAdopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 34/180 of 18 December 1979 entry into force 3 September 1981, in accordance with article 27(1) The present Convention,Noting that the Charter of the United Nations reaffirms faith in ...Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of GenocideApproved and proposed for signature and ratification or accession byGeneral Assembly resolution 260 A (III) of 9 December 1948Entry into force 12 January 1951, in accordance with article XIII The Contracting Parties,Having considered the declaration made by the General Assembly of ...European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Strasbourg, 26.XI.1987Text amended according to the provisions of Protocols No. 1 (ETS No. 151) and No. 2 (ETS No. 152), which entered into force on 1 March 2002. The member States of the Council of Europe, signatory hereto,Having regard to the provisions of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights ...
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