Annex 3: Selected international and regional instruments and standards relevant to the protection and promotion of women’s rights and gender equality issues Universal human rights instruments (selected) GENERAL • International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), 1966 • International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), 1966 • Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR-OP1), 1966 • General Comment 4 of the Human Rights Committee on Equal Right of Men and Women to the Enjoyment of All Civil and Political Rights, 1981 • Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (ICCPR-OP2), 1989 • General Comment 18 of the Human Rights Committee on NonDiscrimination, 1989 • General Comment 28 of the Human Rights Committee on Equality of Rights between Men and Women, 2000