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International standards
Working Group on discrimination against women and girls
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Vienna Human Rights Declaration and Programme of Action
Focused on women’s rights
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
- Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages
- Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
- Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women
Others
- Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
- Optional Protocol to the CRC on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
Other international standards
- Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children, supplementing the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
- Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others
- ILO Convention No. 100 on equal remuneration
- ILO Convention No.111 on discrimination in employment and occupation
- ILO Convention 156 on workers with family responsibilities
- ILO Convention 183 on maternity protection
- ILO Convention 189 on domestic workers
Regional instruments
- 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)
- American Convention on Human Rights
- Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence Against Women "Convention of Belém Do Pará" (http://www.oas.org/en/cim/)
- Additional Protocol to the American Convention on human rights in the area of economic social and cultural rights “Protocol of San Salvador”
- Council of Europe Convention on Human Rights
- The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence
- ASEAN Declaration on Violence against Women and Violence Against Children
- Asean Declaration Against Trafficking in Persons, especially women and children
- OIC Plan of Action for the Advancement of Women
General Assembly and Human Rights Council resolution focused on women’s issues are available under the Documents section
For work and standards emanating from other women’s rights bodies, see others involved.