Welcome to the United Nations 
OHCHR 
Human Rights Day
Human rights belong to all of us. Join us and uphold the rights of everyone, everywhere. Our rights, our future, right now.
International standards
Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
- Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), General recommendation No. 19 (1992) on violence against women
- Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), General recommendation No. 30 (2013) on women in conflict prevention, conflict and post-conflict situations
- Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), General recommendation No. 35 (2017) on gender-based violence against women, updating general recommendation No. 19
- Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict
- Trafficking in persons, especially women and children Protocol to The Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
- Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking: E/2002/68/Add.1
- Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others
- Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women
- Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War
- Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol II)
Regional instruments
- The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence
- African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights
- Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo, Mozambique, 11 July 2003)
- Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence Against Women "Convention of Belém Do Pará"
World conferences
- World Conference on Human Rights (Vienna, 1993)
- Vienna +5
- International Conference on Population Development (Cairo, 1994)
- Cairo +15
- Empowering Women
- Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995)
- Beijing +5
- World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (Durban, 2001)
- Durban Review Conference (Geneva, 2009)