International Instruments

Written on 14 March 2005.

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

• Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others

• UN Protocol to Prevent,Suppress and Punish Traffickingin Persons, Especially Women and Children

• UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime

• Protocol Against Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air Supplementing the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime

• UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Trafficking
  

Slavery and Slavery Like Practices

• Slavery Convention
  

• Protocol Amending the Slavery Convention
  

• Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave trade and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery
  

Employment and Forced Labour

• Convention Concerning Forced or Compulsory Labour
  

• Migration for Employment (Revised) (ILO No. 97)
  

• Abolition of Forced Labour
  

• International Convention on Protection of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families

International Bills of Rights

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  

• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
  

• Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
  

• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  

Women's Human Rights

• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
  

• Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
  

• DeclarationontheProtectionofWomenandChildreninEmergencyandArmedConflict

• Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women

• Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action - Fourth World Conference on Women
  

Marriage

• Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages
  

• Recommendations on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages
  

Rights of the Child

• Declaration of the Rights of the Child

• Convention on the Rights of the Child

• UNICEF's Principles for Ethical Reporting on Children

• UNICEF's Guidelines for Protection of the Rights of Children Victims of Trafficking

• Convention Concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour (ILO 182)

• Convention Concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour (ILO 182)
  

• Optional Protocol to the Conventions on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography
  

World Conferences

• Vienna Declaration, World Conference on Human Rights
  

• UN Millennium Declaration
  

Regional Human Rights Instruments

Inter-American Conventions

• American Convention on Human Rights
  

• American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man
  

• Inter-American Convention on the Granting of Political Rights to Women
  

• Inter-American Conference on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence Against Women
  

European Conventions

• Maastricht Guidelines on Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  

• Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
  

• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
  

• European SocialChapter

• Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

• European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
  

African Conventions

• African (Banjul) Charter on Human and People's Rights
  

• Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights and on the establishment of an African Court on Human and People's Rights

• Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights

• African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child