The proposed Convention on the Rights of Older Persons (UNCROP) is likely to be the next major human rights treaty adopted by the United Nations. The...

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is an international human rights treaty of the United Nations intended to protect the rights...

of a United Nations convention on the rights of older persons. The organisation engages in lobbying and advocacy efforts at the national and international...

persons is a legal term under international humanitarian law and refers to persons who are under specific protection of the 1949 Geneva Conventions,...

of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. The Refugee Convention builds on Article 14 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights...

movement and the self advocacy movement. The first of eight "guiding principles" of the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities...

The United States has signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC); however, it remains the only United Nations member state...

: 125  Japan ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) on 20 January 2014. In 1998 the government estimated...

rights instruments are applicable to all age groups, including older persons, a number of human rights issues that are particularly relevant to older...

the basis of racial or ethnic origin in relation to a number of economic, social and cultural rights. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities...

Human Rights: 15a. Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. New York, 13 December 2006". Archived from the original...

instruments of great importance. The 1997 European Convention on Nationality, for example, has contributed to protecting the rights of stateless persons and provides...

ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2008. New Zealand became a member of the United Nations on October...

Rapporteurship on the Rights of Older Persons (2019) Rapporteurship on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2019 The Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression...

consistent with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. When fully implemented, a children's rights education program consists of both a curriculum...

The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (OPAC), also known as the child soldier...

minors. The 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) defines a child as "any human being below the age of eighteen years, unless under the law applicable...

The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is an international treaty adopted in 1979 by the United Nations...

The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, usually known as the Berne Convention, was an international assembly held in 1886...

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), also called the Law of the Sea Convention or the Law of the Sea Treaty, is an international...

The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious...

Punishment, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, and the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights. In September...

Codification of human rights is recent, but before the Human Rights Act 1998 and the European Convention on Human Rights, UK law had one of the world's longest...

Human Rights: 15a. Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. New York, 13 December 2006". Archived from the original...

Nations Convention against Torture Convention on the Rights of the Child Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons Convention on the Non-Applicability...

Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights prohibits torture, and "inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment". Article 3 – Prohibition of torture...

The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction or Hague Abduction Convention is a multilateral treaty that provides an expeditious...

Amendment of the Magna Carta for the Disabled Persons, 1% budgetary allocation for persons with disability and older persons and other emerging disability...

interest in older persons’ rights existed well before she founded the Gray Panthers in 1970. She was involved with the White House Conference on Aging in...

Human Rights: 15a. Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. New York, 13 December 2006". Archived from the original...