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For easier navigation, all international regulations are classified into specific groups. Thus, we have general international regulations on human rights, regulations against torture, slavery and human trafficking, regulations in the field of the rights of equality and non-discrimination, regulations in the field of the rights of refugees, migrants, stateless persons and asylum seekers, regulations in the field of the rights of peoples and national minorities, as well as regulations from the rights in the case of war and conflict, regulations in the field of children’s rights, regulations from the rights relating to personality, regulations from the rights of women, regulations regulating the rights of persons with disabilities and regulations defining other rights.

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CONTENT

I General international regulations on human rights

II International regulations against torture, slavery and human trafficking

III The right of equality and non-discrimination

IV Rights of refugees, migrants, stateless persons and asylum seekers

V Rights of peoples and national minorities

VI Rights in case of war and conflict

VII Children’s rights

VIII Personality rights

IX Rights of women

X Rights of persons with disabilities

XI Other rights

General international regulations on human rights

Universal Declaration of Human Rights [adopted on December 10, 1948]

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights [adopted on December 16, 1966]

Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights [adopted on December 16, 1966]

Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights aiming at the abolition of the death penalty [adopted on December 15, 1989]

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights [adopted on December 16, 1966]

Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (with amendments from Protocols 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 14) [adopted on November 4, 1950]  

Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms [adopted on March 20, 1952]

Protocol No. 4 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms which securing certain rights and freedoms other than those already included in the Convention and the first Protocol thereto [adopted on September 16, 1963]

Protocol No. 6 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms concerning the abolition of the death penalty [adopted on April 28, 1983]

Protocol No. 7 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms [adopted on November 22, 1984]

Protocol No. 12 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms [adopted on November 4, 2000]

Protocol No. 13 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms concerning the abolition of the death penalty in all circumstances [adopted on May 3, 2002]

European Social Charter (Revised) [adopted on May 3, 1996]

International regulations against torture, slavery and human trafficking

Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment [adopted on December 10, 1984]

European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment [adopted on June 26, 1987]

First Protocol to the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment [adopted on November 4, 1993]

Second Protocol to the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment [adopted on November 4, 1993]

Slavery Convention [adopted on September 25, 1926]

Final Act and Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery [adopted on September 7, 1956]

Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings [adopted on May 16, 2005]

Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance [adopted on December 20, 2006]

The right of equality and non-discrimination

International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination [adopted on December 21, 1965]

International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid [adopted on November 30, 1973]

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women [adopted on December 18, 1979]

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women [adopted on December 10, 1999]

Rights of refugees, migrants, stateless persons and asylum seekers

Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons [adopted on September 28, 1954]

International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families [adopted on December 18, 1990]

Convention relating to the Status of Refugees [adopted on July 28, 1951]

Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees [adopted on January 31, 1967]Convention concerning Migration for Employment (Revised) [adopted on July 1, 1949]

Rights of peoples and national minorities

Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities [adopted on November 10, 1994]

European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages [adopted on November 5, 1992]

Rights in case of war and conflict

Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Filed [adopted on August 12, 1949]

Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea [adopted on August 12, 1949]

Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War [adopted on August 12, 1949]

Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War [adopted on August 12, 1949]

Protocol Additional to the Geneva Convention relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts [adopted on August 12, 1949]

Protocol Additional to the Geneva Convention relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts [adopted on August 12, 1949]

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide [adopted on December 9, 1948]Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity [adopted on November 26, 1968]

Children’s rights

Convention on the Rights of the Child [adopted on November 20, 1989]

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography [adopted on May 25, 2000]

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict [adopted on May 25, 2000]

Personality rights

Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages [adopted on December 10, 1962]

Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data (refined text with incorporated Amendments) [adopted on January 28, 1981]

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 [adopted on April 4, 1997]

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 of Human Beings [adopted on January 12, 2002]

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 Transplantation of Organs and Tissues of Human Origin [adopted on January 24, 2002]

Rights of women

Convention on the Political Rights of Women [adopted on March 31, 1953]

Convention on the Nationality of Married Women [adopted on February 20, 1957]

Rights of persons with disabilities

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities [adopted on December 13, 2006]

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities [adopted on December 13, 2006]

Other rights

European Convention on Extradition [adopted on December 13, 1957]

Additional Protocol to the European Convention on Extradition [adopted on October 15, 1975]

Second Additional Protocol to the European Convention on Extradition [adopted on March 17, 1978]

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