Regional Treaties and Instruments

Regional instruments on human rights: : they are instruments adopted by the United Nations bodies and which are limited to countries in a particular region of the world.

The most important regional instruments for human rights include:

Regional treaties and instruments for Human Rights
Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights
Council of the League of Arab States, Arab Charter on Human Rights
European Social Charter
European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment,
Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons
Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture
American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man,
African [Banjul] Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights
The Kampala Declaration on Intellectual Freedom and Social Responsibility

For all international and regional conventions, you can visit the following links:

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