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.
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