Reference to key human rights documents for The Study on Freedom of Religion or Belief and the Status of Women From the Viewpoint of Religion and Traditions.

INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTS

• 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
  
• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (IESCR)
  
• The Chiang Mai Declaration-Religion and Women: An Agenda for Change
  
• Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
  
• CEDAW Optional Protocol
  
• Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
  
• Crimes of Honor- UN Resolution 2004-19 languages:
  
• Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women
  
• Glossary Of Violence Against Women
• Mandates of UN Special Rapporteurs & Independent Experts - Thematic Madates
• UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime
  
• U.N. Millennium Development Goals
• UN Protocol Against Trafficking to Convention on Organized Crime
• UN Secretary-General's Study on VIolence Against Women 2006
  
• The Beijing Platform
  
• Human Rights Committee General Comment 19 on Article 23 (for ICCPR States Party reports, requires the consent of both marriage partners, advocates civil registration of religious marriages to prevent abuses, child marriage, polygamy where proscribed, etc)
  
• Human Rights Committee General Comment 28 on Article 3 (ICCPR States Party reports, goes beyond the original article in light of threats to women's health, female infanticide, immolation of widows, dowry deaths, genital mutilations, forced prostitution, etc.)
  
• Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief
  
• Human Rights Committee General Comment 22 on Article 18 (for ICCPR States Party reports on Freedom of Religion or Belief. 11 paragraph General Comment).
  
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination Conventions on Slavery of 1926 and 1956 (selections).
  
• UNESCO Convention Against Discrimination in Education
• UN Convention Against Discrimination in Education
• WUNRN Lesson Plan-Andover Newton Theological School
  

REGIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTS

• Inter-American Convention On Violence Against Women
• African Charter on Human and People's Rights (i.e. women's rights in Africa).
  
• African Charter on Rights and Welfare of Children
  
• American Convention on Human Rights (selections)
  
• CSCE Copenhagen Conference on the Human Dimension (selections)
• European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
• Sudanese Women Declaration on Darfur

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