Relevant International Instruments

  • The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  • The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
  • The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 
  • The Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 
  • The Convention on the Rights of the Child
  • The Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
  • The Convention on the Elimination on all Forms of Racial Discrimination
  • The European Convention on Human Rights, its protocols and the relevant  case law of the European Court of Human Rights
  • European Social Charter / Revised European Social Charter
  • African Charter for Human and Peoples’ Rights
  • American Convention on Human Rights 
  •  Geneva Conventions on the Protection of Victims of War and its Protocols as well as customary rules of humanitarian law applicable in armed conflict 
  •  The 1951 Convention regarding the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol
  • The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
  • Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.
Last update: 2.12.2008