International Human Rights Law - International Human Rights Treaties

International Human Rights Treaties

Besides the adoption of the two wide-covering Covenants (International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) in 1966, a number of other treaties (pieces of legislation) have been adopted at the international level.

They are generally known as human rights instruments. Some of the most significant include:

• Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPCG) (adopted 1948, entry into force: 1951)
• Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (CSR) (adopted 1951, entry into force: 1954)
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) (adopted 1965, entry into force: 1969)
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) (entry into force: 1981)
• United Nations Convention Against Torture (CAT) (adopted 1984, entry into force: 1987)
• Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) (adopted 1989, entry into force: 1990)
• International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (ICRMW) (adopted 1990, entry into force: 2003)
• Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities(CRPD) (entry into force: 3 May 2008)
• International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (adopted 2006, entry into force: 2010)