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...

political rights Civil liberties in the United Kingdom Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women Convention on the Political...

The American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR), also known as the Pact of San José or by its Spanish name used in most of the signatory nations, Convención...

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 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 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 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...

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...

critique of Netherlands' implementation of the Convention on the Political Rights of Women; specifically the effect on women soldiers' rights during the restructuring...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (1951) Convention on the Political Rights of Women (1952) Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons...

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

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

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 proposed Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile was a Constitutional draft written by the Constitutional Convention of Chile between 4 July...

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The International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families is a United Nations multilateral treaty...

Rights Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Convention on the Political Rights of Women International Convention on the...

Human Rights: 8. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. New York, 18 December 1979". Archived from the original on 23...

The League of Women Voters (LWV) is an American nonprofit, nonpartisan political organization. Founded in 1920, its ongoing major activities include registering...