International Documents for the Protection of Human Rights

The United Nations

Charter of the United Nations, 1945
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1996
Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Aiming at the Abolition of the Death Penalty, 1989
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 1966
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crime of Genocide, 1948
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 1965
Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, 1979
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, 2000
Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 1984

The Council of Europe

European Convention on Human Rights, 1950
European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 1987
European Social Charter Revised, 1996

United Nations

Article I

"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood."

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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The Council of Europe

Article 14

"The enjoyment of the rights and freedoms set forth in this Convention shall be secured without discrimination on any ground such as sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, association with a national minority, property, birth or other status."

Prohibition of discrimination