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Key International Instruments

• African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights
  
  
• American Convention on Human Rights
  
  
• American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man
  
  
• Arab Charter on Human Rights
  
• Civil Society Watch (a program of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation)

• Community of Democracies 2007 Bamako Ministerial Consensus:
  “Democracy, Development and Poverty Reduction”
  
  
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
  
  
• Convention on the Rights of the Child
  
  
• Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
  
  
• Copenhagen Document of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) (1990)
  
  
• European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
  
  
• First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
  
  
• ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work
  
  
• International Covenant for Civil and Political Rights
  
  
• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  
  
• International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
  
  
• OSCE/ODIHR Key Guiding Principles of Freedom of Association with an Emphasis on Non-Governmental Organizations
  
  
• Recommendation CM/Rec (2007)14 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe to member states on the legal status of non-governmental organisations in Europe
  
  
• U.N. Declaration on the Right to Development
  
  
• U.N. General Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
  
  
• United States Department of State Guiding Principles on Non-Governmental Organizations
  
  
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  
  
• Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action

Related Publications

Report: New Russian Legislation: NGO and Rosregistration – 5 Problems of Interaction, Olga Gnezdilova (in Russian)

Доклад: Новое Законодательство: НКО и Федеральная Регистрационная Служба – 5 Ппроблем Взаимодействия, Ольга Гнездилова

Report: The Backlash against Democracy Assistance

Safeguarding Civil Society in Politically Complex Environments, David Moore, The International Journal
of Not-for-Profit Law, Volume 9, Issue 3, July 2007

“Surviving the Democracy Backlash”, Carl Gershman, Washington Post, June 8, 2007