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,...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities but not signed nor ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons...

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...

of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). CRPD WG has been engaging with other relevant stakeholders in the field of rights...

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...

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

Health of the Elderly-SES\SP., (Brazil). Steering Board of the International Alliance of NGOs for a UN Convention on the Rights of Older Persons, (2010-2012)...

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

herself a victim of the lack of rights for older persons in 1970, forced to retire from a job she loved in the Presbyterian Church. Instead of passively accepting...

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

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