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| File name | Document | Size |
| A Tool for Documenting Human Rights Violations, Human Rights Information and Documentation System, International (HURIDOCS) (2001) |  |
1081 ko |
| A State of Fear: Human Rights Abuse in North Carolina's Tobacco Industry, Farm Labour Organizing Committee, and Oxfam America (2011) | |
96 ko |
| Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights “Protocol of San Salvador” (1988) | |
127 ko |
| American Convention on Human Right (1969) | |
210 ko |
| African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance (2007) | |
318 ko |
| African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (1981) | |
96 ko |
| African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (1990) | |
75 ko |
| Akwe: Kon Guidelines for the conduct of cultural, environmental and social impact assessments regarding developments proposed to take place on, or which are likely to impact on, sacred sites and on lands and waters traditionally occupied or used by indigenous and local communities, Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal (2004) | |
332 ko |
| Beijing Declaration on the Rights of People with Disabilities in the New Century (2000) | |
17 ko |
| Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (2000) | |
91 ko |
| Convention against Discrimination in Education (1960) | |
55 ko |
| Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984) | |
80 ko |
| Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1950) | |
188 ko |
| Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa (1969) | |
28 ko |
| Convention No. 29 concerning Forced or Compulsory Labour (1930) | |
164 ko |
| Convention No. 87 on Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize (1948) | |
98 ko |
| Convention No. 98 on the Right to Organize and Bargain Collectively (1949) | |
85 ko |
| Convention No. 100 on Equal Remuneration (1951) |
| 83 ko |
| Convention No. 105 on the Abolition of Forced Labour (1957) | |
69 ko |
| Convention No. 111 concerning Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) (1958) | |
79 ko |
| Convention No. 138 concerning Minimum Age (Admission to Employment) (1973) | |
61 ko |
| Convention No. 143 on Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) (1975) | |
54 ko |
| Convention No. 159 on Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) (1983) | |
35 ko |
| Convention No. 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries (1989) | |
190 ko |
| Convention No. 182 on the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour (1999) | |
46 ko |
| Convention on Biological Diversity (1992) | |
62 ko |
| Convention on Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Women and Children for Prostitution (2002) | |
51 ko |
| Convention on Regional Arrangements for the Promotion of Child Welfare in South Asia (2002) | |
60 ko |
| Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979) | |
526 ko |
| Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (2005) | |
63 ko |
| Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006). | |
149 ko |
| Convention on the Rights of the Child (1990) | |
109 ko |
| Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Abuses: A Guide for Victims and NGOs on Recourse Mechanisms (press release) FIDH (2010) | |
16 ko |
| Corporate Complicity & Legal Accountability, Vol.1, ICJ (2008) | |
2009 ko |
| Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (2005) | |
138 ko |
| Cultural Indicators for Food Security, Food Sovereignty and Sustainable Development for Indigenous Peoples, FAO guidelines (2006) | |
134 ko |
| Cultural Rights: Fribourg Declaration (2007) | |
150 ko |
| Democratic Development and Civil Society Movements in Morocco: Analysis and Strategic Actions (2004) | |
2120 ko |
| Democratic Development 1990-2000: An Overview, Rights & Democracy (2002) | |
484 ko |
| Digital Security & Privacy for Human Rights Defenders | |
9 ko |
| Documenting Women’s Rights Violations by Non-state Actors, Rights & Democracy (2006) | |
1217 ko |
| Democracy in Peru: A Human Rights Perspective, Rights & Democracy (1997) | |
222 ko |
| European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (1992) | |
112 ko |
| European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1987) | |
88 ko |
| European Social Charter (revised) (1996) | |
403 ko |
| Evaluación de impactos de las empresas y Mineras KORES COMIBOL en los Derechos Humanos del Jach'a Suyu Pakajaqi: Caso Proyecto Cuprífero in Corocoro, Bolivia, CEADESC (2011) | |
1512 ko |
| Fact Sheet No. 2: The International Bill of Human Rights (OHCHR) | |
145 ko |
| Fact Sheet No. 4 (Rev. 1): Combating Torture (OHCHR) | |
425 ko |
| Fact Sheet No. 9 (Rev. 1): The Rights of Indigenous Peoples (OHCHR) | |
163 ko |
| Fact Sheet No. 10 (Rev. 1): The Rights of the Child (OHCHR) | |
161 ko |
| Fact Sheet No. 12: The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (OHCHR) | |
129 ko |
| Fact Sheet No. 16 (Rev. 1): The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (OHCHR) | |
255 ko |
| Fact Sheet No. 17: The Committee against Torture (OHCHR) | |
144 ko |
| Fact Sheet No. 19: National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (OHCHR) | |
133 ko |
| Fact Sheet No. 21: The Human Right to Adequate Housing (OHCHR) | |
290 ko |
| Fact Sheet No. 22: Discrimination against Women: The Convention and the Committee (OHCHR) | |
275 ko |
| Fact Sheet No. 24: The Rights of Migrant Workers (OHCHR) | |
327 ko |
| Fact Sheet No. 25: Forced Evictions and Human Rights (OHCHR) | |
166 ko |
| Fact Sheet: The Right to Health (OHCHR and WHO) | |
98 ko |
| Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, Council of Europe (1995) | |
82 ko |
| Fighting HIV-related Intolerance: Exposing the Links between Racism, Stigma and Discrimination, UNAIDS and WHO (2006) | |
955 ko |
| General Comment 4: The right to adequate housing (Art.11.1), Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, OHCHR (1991) | |
77 ko |
| General Comment 4 (CCPR): Equality between the sexes (Art. 3), OHCHR (1981) | |
30 ko |
| General Comment 5: Persons with disabilities, Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, OHCHR, (1994) | |
89 ko |
| General Comment 6 (CCPR): The right to life (Art. 6), OHCHR (1982) | |
31 ko |
| General Comment 7: The right to adequate housing (Art.11.1), Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, OHCHR (1991) | |
77 ko |
| General Comment 8 (CCPR): Right to liberty and security of persons (Art. 9), OHCHR (1982) | |
30 ko |
| General Comment 10 (CCPR): Freedom of expression (Art. 19), OHCHR (1983) | |
30 ko |
| General Comment 11: Plans of action for primary education (Art. 14), Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, OHCHR (1999) | |
11 ko |
| General Comment 12: The right to adequate food (Art. 11), Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, OHCHR (1999) | |
85 ko |
| General Comment 12 (CCPR): The right of peoples to self-determination (Art. 1), OHCHR | |
31 ko |
| General Comment 13: The right to education (Art. 13), Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, OHCHR (1999) | |
65 ko |
| General Comment 14: The right to the highest attainable standard of health (Art. 12), Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, OHCHR (2000) | |
93 ko |
| General Comment 15: The right to water (articles 11 and 12), Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, OHCHR (2002) | |
124 ko |
| General Comment 16 (CCPR): The right to respect of privacy, family, home and correspondence, and protection of honour and reputation (Art. 17), OHCHR (1988) | |
33 ko |
| General Comment 16: The equal right of men and women to the enjoyment of all economic, social and cultural rights (Art. 3), Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, OHCHR (2005) | |
128 ko |
| General Comment 18: The right to work (Art. 6), Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, OHCHR (2005) | |
168 ko |
| General Comment 18 (CCPR): Non-discrimination (Art. 2), OHCHR (1989) | |
118 ko |
| General Comment 22 (CCPR): The right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion (Art. 18), OHCHR (1993) | |
56 ko |
| General Comment 23 (CCPR): The rights of minorities (Art. 27), OHCHR (1994) | |
128 ko |
| General Comment 25 (CCPR): The right to participate in public affairs, voting rights and the right of equal access to public service (Art. 25), OHCHR (1996) | |
40 ko |
| General Comment 27 (CCPR): Freedom of movement (Art. 12), OHCHR (1999) | |
36 ko |
| General Comment 28 (CCPR): Equality of rights between men and women (Art. 3), OHCHR (2000) | |
40 ko |
| General Comment 31 (CCPR): The nature of the general legal obligation imposed on states parties to the CCPR, OHCHR (2004) | |
127 ko |
| General Survey concerning the Forced Labour Convention, No. 29 (1930), and the Abolition of Forced Labour Convention n°. 105 (1957), International Labour Office, International Labour Conference, 96th Session, 2007 | |
971 ko |
| Guidelines on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly, OSCE/ODIHR (2007) | |
760 ko |
| Handbook on Fact-Finding and Documentation of Human Rights Violations, Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (Forum-Asia) (1994) | |
7590 ko |
| Human Rights and Bilateral Investment Treaties, Rights & Democracy (2009) | |
1353 ko |
| Human Rights and Democratic Development in Africa: Policy Considerations for Africa’s Development in the New Millennium, in preparation for the G8 Summit (2002) | |
311 ko |
| Human Rights and Democratic Development in Pakistan, Rights & Democracy (1998) | |
855 ko |
| Human Rights Table | |
70 ko |
| Identifying and Addressing Violations of the Human Right to Water: Applying the Human Rights Approach, FIAN and Brot für die Welt | |
1637 ko |
| ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (1998) | |
37 ko |
| Indigenous Peoples and United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies: A Compilation of UN Treat Body Jurisprudence, Vol. II, Forest Peoples Programme (2005) | |
978 ko |
| Indigenous peoples’ right to free prior and informed consent and the World Bank’s Extractive Industries Review, Forest Peoples Programme (2004) | |
91 ko |
| Indigenous Rights Between the Two Decades, Rights & Democracy (2005) | |
693 ko |
| Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons (1994) | |
95 ko |
| Inter-American Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities (1999) | |
94 ko |
| Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women "Convention of Belém do Pará" (1994) | |
107 ko |
| Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture (1985) | |
91 ko |
| International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1965) | |
138 ko |
| International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (1990) | |
176 ko |
| International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966) | |
97 ko |
| International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966) | |
66 ko |
| International Meeting of Experts on further study of the concept of the rights of peoples, final report and recommendations, UNESCO (1989) | |
1407 ko |
| International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights, OHCHR and UNAIDS (2006) | |
280 ko |
| Legal Resources for Housing Rights: International and National Standards, COHRE (2000) | |
794 ko |
| Legal Resources for the Right to Water: International and National Standards, COHR (2003) | |
877 ko |
| Large-scale Mining in Ecuador and Human Rights Abuses: The Case of Corriente Resources Inc., CEDHU, FIDH and Right & Democracy | |
1081 ko |
| Module 6: ESC Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Circle of Rights, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Activism: A Training Resource, Forum-Asia | |
188 ko |
| Module 10: The Right to Work and Rights at Work, Circle of Rights, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Activism: A Training Resource, Forum-Asia | |
417 ko |
| Module 12: The Right to Adequate Food, Circle of Rights, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Activism: A Training Resource, Forum-Asia | |
259 ko |
| Module 13: The Right to Adequate Housing, Circle of Rights, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Activism: A Training Resource, Forum-Asia | |
283 ko |
| Module 14: The Right to Health, Circle of Rights, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Activism: A Training Resource, Forum-Asia | |
310 ko |
| Module 16: The Right to Education, Circle of Rights, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Activism: A Training Resource, Forum-Asian | |
245 ko |
| Module 17: Cultural Rights, Circle of Rights, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Activism: A Training Resource, Forum-Asia | |
269 ko |
| Module 30: The Inter-American Human Rights System and ESC Rights, Circle of Rights, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Activism: A Training Resource, Forum-Asia | |
305 ko |
| Montreal Principles on Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation (CERA) (2006) | |
361 ko |
| Portrait of the Indigenous Women of Asia, Rights & Democracy (2007) | |
2290 ko |
| Principles for the protection of persons with mental illness and the improvement of mental health care, OHCHR (1991) | |
117 ko |
| Protection Manual for Human Rights Defenders, PBI and Front Line, 2005 | |
883 ko |
| Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights (1998) | |
32 ko |
| Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (2003) | |
113 ko |
| Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights to Abolish the Death Penalty (1990) | |
69 ko |
| Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Council of Europe | |
68 ko |
| Roads to Democracy: Human Rights and Democratic Development in Thailand, Rights & Democracy (1994) | |
179 ko |
| Recommendation No. 115 on Workers' Housing, International Labour Organization (1961) | |
192 ko |
| Recommendation samples | |
155 ko |
| Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, Miloon Kothari (2007) | |
280 ko |
| Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Asma Jahangir, OHCHR (2007) | |
200 ko |
| Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Jean Ziegler (2003) | |
475 ko |
| Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Jean Ziegler (2005) | |
521 ko |
| Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Jean Ziegler(2006) | |
537 ko |
| Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, John Ruggie, March 21, 2011 | |
192 ko |
| Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, Rodolfo Stavenhagen (2003) | |
137 ko |
| Reporting Killings as Human Rights Violations: How to document and respond to potential violations of the right to life within the international system for the protection of human rights, Human Rights Centre, University of Essex (2002) | |
1008 ko |
| Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aimed at the abolishment of the death penalty (1989) | |
71 ko |
| Seeking Remedies for Victims of Torture: A Handbook on the Individual Complaints Procedures of the UN Treaty Bodies, OMCT (2006) | |
2400 ko |
| “Self-made Citizens”: Building Democracy through Human Rights in Mexico, Rights & Democracy (2003) | |
592 ko |
| Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities, UN General Assembly (1993) | |
186 ko |
| The Democratic Development Exercise: Terms of Reference and Analytical Framework, Rights & Democracy (1996) | |
134 ko |
| The End of Child Labour: Within Reach, International Labour Organization (2006) | |
1319 ko |
| The Prohibition of Torture and Ill-treatment in the African Human Rights System: A Handbook for Victims and their Advocates, World Organization against Torture (OMCT) | |
1248 ko |
| The Human Right to Food in Haiti: Report of an International Fact-finding Mission, Rights & Democracy, 2008 | |
5690 ko |
| The Human Right to Food in Malawi: Report of an International Fact-finding Mission, Rights & Democracy, 2006 | |
6672 ko |
| The Human Right to Food in Nepal: Report of an International Fact-finding Mission, Rights & Democracy, 2007 | |
9041 ko |
| The human right to water and sanitation, Resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly, August 3, 2010 | |
42 ko |
| The Prohibition of Torture and Ill-treatment in the Inter-American Human Rights System, A Handbook for Victims and their Advocates, OMCT (2006) | |
6982 ko |
| The right of everyone to enjoy the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health: Report by Paul Hunt, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health (2003) | |
214 ko |
| The Right to Water, World Health Organization, 2003 | |
1930 ko |
| The Yogyakarta Principles: Principles on the application of international human rights law in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity (2007) | |
192 ko |
| Towards a New Role for Civil Society in the Democratization of Guatemala, Rights & Democracy (1996) | |
183 ko |
| Towards a Reconstruction of State-Society Relations: Democracy and Human Rights in Tanzania, Rights & Democracy (1995) | |
163 ko |
| Treaty establishing the European Community (1958) | |
415 ko |
| Treaty on European Union (1992) | |
124 ko |
| United Nations Declaration on Principles of International Law Concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States (1970) | |
465 ko |
| United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief (1981) | |
72 ko |
| United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007) | |
149 ko |
| Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity (2002) | |
808 ko |
| Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) | |
189 ko |
| Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action (United Nations) | |
178 ko |
| Voluntary Guidelines to support the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security, FAO (2005) | |
635 ko |
| Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, International Business Leaders Forum and Business for Social Responsibility | |
230 ko |
| Women and Housing Rights, COHRE (2000) | |
2753 ko |
| Women and the Right to Food, FAO (2008) | |
686 ko |
| Working with the UN Human Rights Programme: A handbook for Civil Society, OHCHR (2008) | |
1348 ko |
| World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons, UN General Assembly (1982) | |
191 ko |
