• Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• 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, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty

• Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples
• General Assembly Resolution 1803 (XVII) of 14 December 1962, "Permanent sovereignty over natural resources"

• United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
• International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
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• Convention against Discrimination in Education

Rights of Women

• Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women
• Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
• Convention on the Political Rights of Women
• Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict

Rights of the Child

• Declaration of the Rights of the Child
• Convention on the Rights of the Child
• Declaration on Social and Legal Principles relating to the Protection and Welfare of Children, with Special Reference to Foster Placement and Adoption Nationally and Internationally

Slavery, Servitude, Forced Labour and Similar Institutions and Practices

• Slavery Convention
• Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery
• Forced Labour Convention
• Abolition of Forced Labour Convention
• Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others

Freedom of Information

• Convention on the International Right of Correction

Freedom of Association

• Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention
• Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention
• Workers' Representatives Convention
• Labour Relations (Public Service) Convention

Employment

• Employment Policy Convention
• Convention (No. 154) concerning the Promotion of Collective Bargaining
• Convention (No. 168) concerning Employment Promotion and Protection against Unemployment
• Convention (No. 169) concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries

Marriage, Family and Youth

• Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages

Social Welfare, Progress and Development

• Declaration on Social Progress and Development
• Declaration on the Rights of Mentally Retarded Persons
• Principles for the protection of persons with mental illness and improvement of mental health care
• Universal Declaration on the Eradication of Hunger and Malnutrition
• Declaration on the Right of Peoples to Peace
• Declaration on the Right to Development
• International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families

Right to Enjoy Culture: International Cultural Development and Co-operation

• Declaration of the Principles of International Cultural Co-operation

Nationality, Statelessness, Asylum and Refugees

• Convention on the Nationality of Married Women
• Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness
• Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons
• Convention relating to the Status of Refugees
• Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees
• Statute of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
• Declaration on Territorial Asylum
• Declaration on the Human Rights of Individuals Who are not Nationals of the Country in which they Live

War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity, including Genocide

• Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
• Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity
• Principles of international co-operation in the detection, arrest, extradition and punishment of persons guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity

Humanitarian Law

• Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and the Sick in Armed Forces in the Field
• Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea
• Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
• Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War

Declaration on the Right to Development