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