RESOURCES
Here you can find the full text of the main human rights instruments:
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
- Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
- Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
- European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Family
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- The 1951 Geneva Refugee Convention
- The OAU Refugee Convention
- Cartagena Declaration on Refugees
- European Social Charter
- African (Banjul) Charter on Human and People’s Rights
- American Convention on Human Rights
- Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief
- Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict
- Declaration on the Right to Development
- United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- Declaration on the Rights of Mentally Retarded Persons
- The UN Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime
More resources:
- Compass – A Manual on Human Rights Education with Young People
- Compasito – Manual on Human Rights Education with Children
- Gender Matters – Manual on Gender Based Violence affecting Young People
- Education Pack “all different – all equal”
- DOMINO - A manual to use peer group education as a means to fight racism, xenophobia, anti-semitism and intolerance
- Alien ’93 – Youth Organisations Combatting Racism and Xenofobia
- The Human Rights Education Youth Programme of the Council of Europe
- Human Rights Education Youth Programme
- UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund)
- UNHCR (The UN Refugee Agency)
- OHCHR (UN Human Rights – Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights)
- UN Cyberschoolbus
- Human Rights Watch
- Amnesty International
- Human Rights – Human Wrongs
- Human Rights Education
- Youth for Human Rights
- United for Human Rights
- Hague Appeal for Peace
- Peace Boat
