International Human Rights Documents

Selected List

 

 

Basic Documents

 

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights

United Nations Charter

 

 

Documents on Genocide and Crimes against Humanity

 

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment

or Punishment

Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

 

 

Documents on Conduct During Conflict

 

Geneva Convention I

Geneva Convention II

Geneva Convention III

Geneva Convention IV

 

 

Other Important Human Rights Documents

 

International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

Convention on the Rights of the Child