UN Instruments
(referred to in the Compendium of Court Decisions)
The International Bill of Human Rights
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 1966
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966
Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, 1989
Other Human Rights Instruments
Declaration of the Rights of the Child, 1959
Convention against Discrimination in Education, 1960
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 1965
Declaration on Elimination of Discrimination against Women, 1967
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 1979
Declaration on the Right to Development, 1986
Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989