International Instruments
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Key International Instruments
The following instruments can be used to uphold the rights of civil society groups and the values upheld in the Defending Civil Society Project:
- 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
