The Raoul Wallenberg Institute Compilation of Human Rights Instruments : Third Revised Edition

• Superior document: The Raoul Wallenberg Institute Human Rights Library
• Author: Melander, Göran.
• TeilnehmendeR: Gudmundur Alfredsson.; Holmström, Leif, 1948-
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 3rd ed.
• Language: English
• Series: The Raoul Wallenberg Institute Human Rights Library
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (859 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In 1997, The Raoul Wallenberg Institute Compilation of Human Rights Instruments was published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers as the first volume in the series "The Raoul Wallenberg Institute Human Rights Library". In 2004, the second edition of that Compilation was published, and the present publication is the third, revised edition of the book. Since the second edition of the Compilation went out of print, major human rights treaties have entered, or are about to enter, into force, and a number of non-treaty instruments have been adopted. The dynamic development in international human rights

Table of Contents

The Raoul Wallenberg Institute Compilation of Human Rights Instruments; Table of Contents; Introduction; I. Universal Instruments - General Part; 1. Universal Declaration of Human Rights; 2. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; 3. Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; 4. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; 5. Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

6. Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death pe7. International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance; 8. Principles Relating to the Status of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights; 9. Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally R; 10. Global Compact; II. Regional Instruments - General Part; 1. Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

2. Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms3. Protocol No. 4 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Securing Certain Rights and Fre; 4. Protocol No. 6 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Concerning the Abolition of the; 5. Protocol No. 7 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms; 6. Protocol No. 12 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

7. Protocol No. 13 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, concerning the abolition of th8. European Social Charter (Revised); 9. Additional Protocol to the European Social Charter Providing for a System of Collective Complaints; 10. American Convention on Human Rights "Pact of San José, Costa Rica"; 11. Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights "Protocol; 12. Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights to Abolish the Death Penalty

13. African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights14. Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples'; 15. Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa; III. Race; 1. International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination; IV. Women; 1. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; 2. Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

3. Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women