Full Description
This edition of "International Human Rights Documents" has been fully revised and updated to include all developments in international human rights law, including the addition of two protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child 2000, the European Convention on Human Rights 2000 and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights 2000. It contains comprehensive coverage of all the most important international human rights treaties concluded under the auspices of the United Nations, as well as treaties, conventions and protocols from a variety of regional human rights organizations in Europe, America, Africa, Arab states and the Commonwealth of Independent States. It also includes documents on the UN Procedure for handling human rights complaints, documents of the world conferences on human rights and the full text of the Human Rights Act 1998. This book brings together in an accessible format a range of materials central to the international protection of human rights.
Contents
International Instruments1919 Human Rights Provisions of the Covenant of the Leagure of Nations. 1926 Slavery Convention. 1953a Protocol Amending the Slavery Convention. 1930 Convention Concerning Forced Labour. 1945 Human Rights Clauses of the Charter of the United Nations. 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 1949 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. 1967a Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees. 1952 Convention on the Political Rights of Women. 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery. 1957 Convention Concerning the Abolition of Forced Labour. 1959 Declaration on the Rights of the Child. 1963 United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. 1966 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. 1966a (First) Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. 1990b Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Aiming at the Abolition of the Death Penalty. 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. 1967 Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. 1973 International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid. 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. 1999a Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. 1981 Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief. 1984 Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. 2000a Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflicts. 2000b Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography. 1992 Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorites. 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. 1999 Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention. 2000 Protocal to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking on Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. United Nations Procedure For Handling Human Rights Complaints1959 Resolution 728F (XXVIII) of the Economic and Social Council. 1967 Resolution 1235 (XLII) of the Economic and Social Council. 1970 Resolution 1503 (XLVIII) of the Economic and Social Council. 1971 Resolution 1 (XXIV) of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities. 2000 Resolution 2000/3 of the Economic and Social Council. Regional InstrumentsEurope. 1950 Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (as amended by Protocols Nos. 3,5,8 and 11). 1952a First Protocol. 1963a Fourth Protocol. 1983c Sixth Protocol. 1984d Seventh Protocol. 2000e Twelfth Protocol. 1987 European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. 1993a First Protocol. 1993b Second Protocol. 1992 European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. 1995 Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. 1996 European Convention on the Exercise of Children's Rights. 1997 Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine. 1998a Additional Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine, on the Prohibition of Cloning Human Beings. 1961 European Social Charter. 1988a Additional Protocol to the European Social Charter. 1991b Protocol Amending the European Social Charter. 1995c Additional Protocol to the European Social Charter Providing for a System of Collective Complaints. 1996d European Social Charter (Revised). European Union. 2000 Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. America. 1981 African Charter on Human and People's Rights. 1998a Protocol on the Establishment of an African Court on Human and People's Rights. 1969 OAU Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa. 1990 African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. Commonwealth of Independent States. 1995 Commonwealth of Independent States Convention on Human Rights and Funamental Freedoms. 1993 Regulations on the Human Rights Commission of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Arab. 1994 Arab Charter on Human Rights. United Nations World Conferences on Human Rights Instruments1968 Proclamation of Teheran. 1993 Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action. Domestic Legislation1998 Human Rights Act
