United Nations Human Rights Laws
Reference Index

(8 August 1945) "Charter of the International Military Tribunal (IMT)," in Agreement for the Prosecution and Punishment of the Major War Criminals of the European Axis (London Agreement)

(1950) Statute of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

(4 July 1950) Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention

(12 January 1951) Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

(18 July 1951) Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention

(22 April 1954) Convention relating to the Status of Refugees

(1959) Declaration of the Rights of the Child

(24 August 1962) Convention on the International Right of Correction

(4 October 1967) Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees

(1968) Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity

(1973) Principles of International Co-Operation in the Detection, Arrest, Extradition and Punishment of Persons Guilty of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity

(30 June 1973) Workers' Representatives Convention

(1975) Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Being Subjected to Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

(1975) Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons

(1977) Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners

(1982) Principles of Medical Ethics relevant to the Role of Health Personnel, particularly Physicians, in the Protection of Prisoners and Detainees against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

(1984) Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

(1984) Declaration on the Right of Peoples to Peace

(1985) Basic Principles on the Independence of the Judiciary, Seventh United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders

(1985) Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power

(1986) Declaration on the Right to Development

(1988) Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment

(1989) Convention on the Rights of the Child

(1990) Basic Principles for the Treatment of Prisoners

(1990) Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers, Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders

(1990) Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials

(1990) Guidelines on the Role of Prosecutors

(18 December 1992) Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances