Compendium of Standards, Good Practices and Recommendations
Right
Legal Source
Examples of Relevance
Right to equality
Preamble UN Charter
Discrimination in treatment
of women, religious and
ethnic minorities, and on
the basis of gender identity
or sexual orientation (for
example, discharge following
pregnancy or upon discovery
of sexual orientation, sexual
harassment, limitations on the
promotion of women and their
deployment to combat zones),
equality in employment
and occupation, and equal
remuneration.
Article 1 UDHR (liberty and equality)
Article 2 UDHR
Article 6 UDHR (recognition before the law)
Article 7 UDHR
Article 3 ICCPR (does not list grounds on
which discrimination may be based)
Article 14 ICCPR (equality before courts and
tribunals)
Article 3 ICESCR
Article 2 CEDAW
Article 15 CEDAW
Article 2 ICERD
Article 2 CRC
Article 2 ILO C100 (equal remuneration)
Articles 2 and 3 ILO C111 (national policies
to promote equality in employment and
occupation)
Article 14 ECHR
Article 27 ESC(R)
Article E ESC(R)
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