The Convention on the Political Rights of Women was approved by the United Nations General Assembly during the 409th plenary meeting, on 20 December 1952...

The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is an international treaty adopted in 1979 by the United Nations...

international convention to protect human rights and political freedoms in Europe. Drafted in 1950 by the then newly formed Council of Europe, the convention entered...

The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious...

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out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children. The convention defines a child as any human being under the age of eighteen...

The American Convention on Human Rights, also known as the Pact of San José, is an international human rights instrument. It was adopted by many countries...

The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) is a multilateral treaty that commits nations to respect the civil and political rights...

Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th...

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is an international human rights treaty of the United Nations intended to protect the rights...

Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792), written by British philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary...

The National Women's Rights Convention was an annual series of meetings that increased the visibility of the early women's rights movement in the United...

The United States has signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC); however, it remains the only United Nations member state...

The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence, better known as the Istanbul Convention, is...

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women recognises and protects many of the economic, social and cultural rights recognised...

attendees at the first women's rights convention to be organized by women. Held in Seneca Falls, New York, the convention is now known as the Seneca Falls...

December 1984) Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC, 20 November 1989) International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers...

The Rochester Women's Rights Convention of 1848 met on August 2, 1848 in Rochester, New York. Many of its organizers had participated in the Seneca Falls...

Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child...

procedures." The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Political Rights of Women, which went into force in 1954, enshrining the equal...

– Protects rights defined elsewhere in the convention from being denied on the basis of sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinions...

voting laws to allow women to vote. Liberal political parties would go on to grant women the right to vote, increasing the number of those parties' potential...

Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private...

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The proposed Convention on the Rights of Older Persons (UNCROP) is likely to be the next major human rights treaty adopted by the United Nations. The...

and Political Rights, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial...

also a signatory of the United Nations Convention on the Political Rights of Women (CEDAW). Commission on Elections Politics of the Philippines Philippine...

The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is a body of experts that monitor and report on the implementation of the United Nations Convention on...

Political Rights or in the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The 1950 European Convention on Human Rights acknowledges a right...