Conventions and Protocols

Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, Supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others

Convention on the Rights of the Child

Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict and on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography

C182 Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999: Convention Concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour

Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time
of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949

Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and
relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts
(Protocol I), 8 June 1977

Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and
relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed
Conflicts (Protocol II), 8 June 1977

International Conventions

1. The 1966 Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/a_cescr.htm

2. The 1989 U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child. http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/k2crc.htm

3. United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime.
http://www.undcp.org/odccp/crime_cicp_convention.html

4. Protocol Against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Air and Sea, Supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime.
www.uncjin.org/Documents/Conventions/dcatoc/final_documents_2/convention_smug_eng.pdf

5. The Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing 1995) gopher://gopher.undp.org:70/00/unconfs/women/off/a--20.en

6. The 1991 Moscow Document of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. http://www.osce.org/docs/english/1990-1999/hd/mosc91e.htm

7. The 1956 U.N. Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade and Institutions and Practices similar to Slavery.
http://fletcher.tufts.edu/multi/texts/BH333.txt

8. The 1965 Hague Convention on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law and
Recognition of Decrees Relating to Adoption.
http://www.hcch.net/e/conventions/text13e.html

9. The 1967 European Convention on the Adoption of Children.
http://eurochild.gla.ac.uk/Documents/CoE/Treaties/ETS_no_58.htm

10. The 1986 U.N. Declaration on Social and Legal Principles Relating to the Protection and Welfare of Children with Special Reference to foster Placement and Adoption Nationally and Internationally.
http://www.hri.ca/uninfo/treaties/27.shtml

11. The 1993 Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation
in respect to Inter-Country Adoption.
http://www.hcch.net/e/conventions/text33e.html

12. The WHO Guiding Principles on Human Organ Transportation. http://www.cma.co.za/ethics/annexe.htm

13. The 1962 Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for
Marriage and Registration of Marriages.
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/63.htm

14. The International Labor Organization Convention No. 29 Concerning,
Abolition of forced or Compulsory Labor.
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/n0ilo29.htm

15. The 1957 International Labor Organization Convention No. 105 Concerning the Abolition of Forced Labor.
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/32.htm

16. The 1973 International Labor Organization Convention No. 138 Concerning Minimum Age.
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/c138.htm

17. The 1950 Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and
Fundamental Freedoms.
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/z17euroco.html

18. The 1984 U.N. Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhumane
and Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/h_cat39.htm

19. The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights

20. The 2001 proposed European Union Draft Convention on Cyber Crime Detailing Offenses Related to Child Pornography.
http://conventions.coe.int/treaty/EN/projets/cybercrime27.htm

21. The Council of Europe's Recommendation No. R91, Concerning Sexual
exploitation, Pornography and Prostitution of and Trafficking in Children and Young Adults.
http://eurochild.gla.ac.uk/documents/coe/Reports/coe-imp&rep/coe-R(91)11Imp(2).htm