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INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW

 GENEVA CONVENTIONS, 1949/1950

I    For the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in the

        Armed Forces in  the Field

II    For the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of the Armed Forces at Sea

III    Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War

IV    Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War

Article 3 Common to the Four Geneva Conventions of 1949

Protocols I and II Additional

Rome Statute on the International Criminal Court 

 

INTERNATIONAL LABOR LAW

http://www.ilo.org/

Seven Fundamental ILO Conventions

    Forced Labor (No. 29), 1930

    Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize (No. 87), 1948

    Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining (No. 98), 1949

    Equal Remuneration (No. 100), 1951

    Abolition of Forced Labor Convention  (No. 105), 1957

    Discrimination (Occupation & Employment)  (No. 111), 1958

    Minimum Age (No. 138), 1973

    Worst Forms of Child Labor (No. 182), 1999

 

INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 

 

And seven major treaties:

Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 1966/1977

Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966/1977

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1948/1951

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 1965/1969

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 1979/1981

Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 1984/1987

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989/1991

REGIONAL TREATY REGIMES

Inter-American Regime

         American Convention on Human Rights

European

European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, 1950/1953

African

African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Banjul Charter), 1981