• Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 10 December 1948
• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 16 December 1966
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 16 December 1966
• International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 21 December 1965
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 18 December 1979
• Convention on the Rights of the Child, 20 November 1989
• Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child, 25 May 2000
• Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflicts, 25 May 2000
• Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading treatment or Punishment, 10 December 1984
• International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, 18 December 1990
• ILO, Migration for Employment Convention (Revised), 1949
• ILO, Recommendation No. 86 concerning Migration for Employment (Revised 1949)
• ILO, Convention No. 143 concerning Migrant Workers
• ILO, Recommendation No 151 concerning Migrant Workers (1975)
• United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocols
• Declaration on the Human Rights of Individuals Who are not Nationals of the Country in which They Live, 13 December 1985
• Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (2001)
• Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking- Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to the Economic and Social Council- E/2002/68/Add.1
• Resolution of the UN Commission on Human Rights on the human rights of migrants, 2005 - E/CN.4/RES/2005/47
• Resolution of the UN General Assembly on Protection of Migrants, 2004 - A/RES/59/194
• Resolution of the Human Rights Council 8/10 on Human rights of Migrants: Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants

Migration and Human Rights

Convention on Migrant Workers

Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families

Documents of the former Working group of intergovernmental experts on Migrant Workers

The Rights of Migrant Workers (Fact Sheet 24 Rev.1)