CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCING NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTIONS Slavery, slavery-like practices and forced labour Slavery Convention Protocol amending the Slavery Convention signed at Geneva on 25 September 1926 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29) Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 (No. 105) Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime Rights of migrants International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (ICPMW) ANNEX 2: SELECTED REGIONAL INSTRUMENTS AND INTERNATIONAL LAW Africa Constitutive Act of the African Union, OAU Doc. CAB/ LEG/23.15, entered into force May 26, 2001. African [Banjul] Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, entered into force Oct. 21, 1986. Ratification information Rules of Procedure of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, adopted on October 6, 1995. Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Establishment of an African Court on Human and People’s Rights, June 9, 1998 Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, entered into force January 25, 2004. Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, entered into force Nov. 25, 2005. Rights of the child Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, entered into force Nov. 29, 1999. Nationality, statelessness, asylum and refugees Declaration on the Decade of a Culture of the Rights of the Child in West Africa (2001-2010). Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness Nationality, statelessness, asylum and refugees Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa, U.N.T.S. 45, entered into force June 20, 1974. Ratification information Convention relating to the Status of Refugees Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees Declaration on the Human Rights of Individuals who are not Nationals of the Country in which they live Also available: Ratifications and Reservations Status of ratifications of human rights treaties Conventions, Declarations and Other Instruments Found in General Assembly Resolutions (since 1946) Ratification information The Khartoum Declaration on Africa’s Refugee Crisis, September (1990). The Addis Ababa Document on Refugees and Forced Population Displacements in Africa, Adopted by the OAU/UNHCR Symposium on Refugees and Forced Population Displacements in Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 8 - 10 September 1994 The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) 2001. 17

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