Human Rights

By Sritha77

  • UN charter is signed in San Fracisco

  • Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

  • Universal Declaration of Human rights

  • European Convention of Human Rights

  • Convention on the prevention of the crime of genocide

  • Convention relating to status of refugees.

  • Convention on the political rights of women.

  • Protocol amending the convention to suppress the slave trade and slavery originally signed in Geneva, Switzerland on September 25, 1926, under the auspices of the League of Nations.

  • Convention relating to stateless persons.

  • Convention on the abolition of slavery, the slave trade, and institutions and practices of slavery.

  • Convention on the abolition of forced labour.

  • Declaration on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination.

  • International convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination. A committee on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination established.

  • International covenant on civil and political rights - Human Rights committee established.

  • Declaration of the elimination of discrimination against women. Proclamation of Tehran – International conference on human rights.

  • Convention on the non-applicability of statutory limitations to war crimes against humanity.

  • Declaration of the rights of the elderly.

  • Declaration of the rights of mentally retarded persons.

  • International convention on the suppression and punishment of the crime of apartheid.

  • Declaration on the rights of disabled persons. Declaration on the protection of all persons from being subjected to torture and other cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

  • Convention concerning migrations in abusive conditions and the promotion of equality of opportunity and treatment of migrant workers.

  • Convention on the elimination of all kinds of discrimination against women. Committee on the elimination of all kinds of discrimination against women established.

  • African charter on hand people's rights (African Charter).

  • Declaration on the elimination of all intolerance and discrimination based on religion or belief.

  • Convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

  • Committee on economic, social and cultural rights established to monitor international convention on economic, social and cultural rights.

  • Declaration on the right to development.

  • Convention on the right of the child. Committee on the right of the child established.

  • Second optional protocol to the international covenant on civil and political rights – aimed at the abolition of death penalty.

  • Cairo declaration on human rights in Islam.

  • Basic principles for the treatment of prisoners.

  • International convention on the protection of the rights of all migrant workers and members of their families.

  • Declaration on the protection of all persons from enforced disappearance. Declaration on the rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic or religious or linguistic minorities.

  • World conference on human rights opens in Vienna

  • Declaration on the elimination of violence against women.

  • International decade of the world's indegenous peoples proclaimed.

  • Declaration of the Arab charter on human rights.

  • International decade for human rights education proclaimed: 1995 – 2004

  • World conference on womens rights at Beijing.

  • Declaration on the right and responsibility of individuals, groups and organs of society to promote and protect universally recognised human rights and fundamental freedoms

  • Charter of fundamental rights of the European Union.

  • World conference against racism, xenophobia and all forms of discrimination in Durban, South Africa.

  • United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples.

  • Convention on the rights of people with disabilities came into force.