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.