
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

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