Human Rights Core Instrument
Explore the documents that provide the foundational legal framework for international human rights.
ADOPTED 10 December 1984
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
ADOPTED 18 December 1979
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women New York, 18 December 1979
ADOPTED 23 December 2010
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
ADOPTED 21 December 1965
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
ADOPTED 18 December 1990
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
ADOPTED 18 December 2002
Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
ADOPTED 06 October 1999
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
ADOPTED 13 December 2006
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
ADOPTED 19 December 2011
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure
ADOPTED 25 May 2000
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict
ADOPTED 25 May 2000
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
ADOPTED 17 December 1966
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights