International Law

WOMEN'S CONVENTIONS

• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women [CEDAW] (1981)
  • Optional Protocol to CEDAW (2000)
  • State Parties to CEDAW
• Convention on the Political Rights of Women [CPRW] (1954)

CHILDREN'S CONVENTION

• Convention on the Rights of the Child [CRC] (1990)

UNITED NATIONS WORLD CONFERENCE REPORTS

• Fourth World Conference on Women [FWCW]: Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995)
• International Conference on Population & Development [ICPD]: Cairo Declaration (1994)
  
• World Conference on Human Rights: Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action (1993)

RIGHTS OF WOMEN IN

Armed Conflict

• Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict (1974)
• FWCW Platform for Action: Women and Armed Conflict (1995)

Education

• Convention against Discrimination in Education (1960)
• FWCW Platform for Action: Education and Training of Women (1995)

Employment

• International Labour Organization's
  Equal Remuneration Convention (1951)
• CEDAW Committee, General Recommendation 13: Equal Remuneration for Work of Equal Value (1989)
• CEDAW Committee, General Recommendation 17: Measurement and Quantification of the Unremunerated Domestic Activities of Women and Their Recognition in the Gross National Product (1991)

Health

• ICPD Programme of Action: Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Health (1994)
• ICPD Programme of Action: Child Survival, Women's Health, and Safe Motherhood (1994)
• FWCW Platform for Action: Women and Health (1995)

Marriage

• CEDAW Committee, General Recommendation 21: Equality in Marriage and Family Relations (1994)
• ICPD Programme of Action: The Family, Its Roles, Rights, Composition and Structure (1994)

Violence

• Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (1993)
• CEDAW Committee, General Recommendation 19: Violence Against Women (1992)
• FWCW Platform for Action: Violence Against Women (1995)

GENERAL HUMAN RIGHTS CONVENTIONS

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights [UDHR] (1948)
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights [ICCPR] (1976)
• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights [ICESCR] (1976)
• International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination [ICERD] (1969)

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