Women, Girls, Boys and men - HumanitarianInfo.org
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LEGAL FRAMEWORK<br />
I A s c g e n D e r h A n D b o o k<br />
rESourCES<br />
1. International human rights treaties <strong>and</strong> conventions<br />
The seven core international human rights treaties are the International Covenant on Civil <strong>and</strong> Political Rights (ICCPR),<br />
International Covenant on Economic, Social <strong>and</strong> Cultural Rights (ICESCR), the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms<br />
of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), the Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against <strong>Wo<strong>men</strong></strong> (CEDAW),<br />
the UN Convention against Torture (CAT), the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) <strong>and</strong> the Migrant Workers<br />
Convention (MWC).<br />
All treaties, General Com<strong>men</strong>ts of the human rights treaty bodies <strong>and</strong> Concluding Observations on State Party reports can<br />
be found at: http://www.ohchr.<strong>org</strong>/english/<br />
2. Examples of optional protocols<br />
• Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR aiming at the abolition of the death penalty.<br />
• Optional Protocol to the CRC on the involve<strong>men</strong>t of children in armed conflict.<br />
• Optional Protocol to the CRC on the sale of children, child prostitution <strong>and</strong> child pornography.<br />
• Optional Protocol to the CAT aiming to establish a system of regular independent visits to places where people are<br />
deprived of their liberty, in order to prevent torture <strong>and</strong> other cruel, inhuman or degrading treat<strong>men</strong>t or punish<strong>men</strong>t.<br />
3. Examples of regional treaties<br />
• The African Charter on Human <strong>and</strong> Peoples’ Rights <strong>and</strong> its Protocol on the Rights of <strong>Wo<strong>men</strong></strong> in Africa.<br />
• The American Convention on Human Rights <strong>and</strong> its Protocol on Economic, Social <strong>and</strong> Cultural Rights.<br />
• The European Convention on Funda<strong>men</strong>tal Rights <strong>and</strong> Freedoms, <strong>and</strong> its Protocols, as well as the European Social Charter.<br />
• The 1969 Convention Governing Specific Aspects of the Refugee Problem in Africa.<br />
• The 1984 Cartagena Declaration on Refugees.<br />
• The 2001 Revised Bangkok Principles on the Status <strong>and</strong> Treat<strong>men</strong>t of Refugees.<br />
4. Selected reference materials<br />
• Human Rights Committee General Com<strong>men</strong>t No. 28, “The equality of rights between <strong>men</strong> <strong>and</strong> wo<strong>men</strong>” <strong>and</strong> Committee<br />
on Economic, Social <strong>and</strong> Cultural Rights General Com<strong>men</strong>t No. 16 on “The equal right of <strong>men</strong> <strong>and</strong> wo<strong>men</strong> to the<br />
enjoy<strong>men</strong>t of all economic, social <strong>and</strong> cultural rights.”<br />
• Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against <strong>Wo<strong>men</strong></strong>, General Recom<strong>men</strong>dation No. 19 on “Violence<br />
against <strong>Wo<strong>men</strong></strong>.”<br />
• Reports of the Special Rapporteur on Violence against <strong>Wo<strong>men</strong></strong>.<br />
http://www.ohchr.<strong>org</strong>/english/issues/wo<strong>men</strong>/rapporteur/<br />
• ICVA. Growing the Sheltering Tree: Protecting Rights through Humanitarian Action. 2002.<br />
http://www.icva.ch/doc00000717.html<br />
• Active Learning Network for Accountability <strong>and</strong> Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP). Protection, an ALNAP<br />
guide for humanitarian agencies. 2005. http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-6Q3J4T?OpenDocu<strong>men</strong>t<br />
• ICRC. Strengthening Protection in War — A Search for Professional St<strong>and</strong>ards. 2001.<br />
http://www.icrc.<strong>org</strong>/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/p0783<br />
• UNICEF. Cape Town Principles <strong>and</strong> Best Practices on the Recruit<strong>men</strong>t of Children into the Armed Forces <strong>and</strong> on Demobilization<br />
<strong>and</strong> Social Reintegration of Child Soldiers in Africa. 1997.<br />
http://www.unicef.<strong>org</strong>/emerg/files/Cape_Town_Principles(1).pdf<br />
T H e I n T e R n AT I o n A l l e G A l F R A m e w o R k F o R P R o T e C T I o n