Canadian

New Brunswick Human Rights Act

Canadian Human Rights Act

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

American

Declaration of Independence

U.S. Bill of Rights

International

The Atlantic Charter

Charter of the United Nations

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Reflections on the Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil an Political Rights

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

International Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women

International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

International Convention on the Rights of the Child

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man

American Convention on Human Rights "Pact of San Jose, Costa Rica"

Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights "Protocol of San Salvador"

Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights to Abolish the Death Penalty

Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture

Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

African [Banjul] Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights

Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (from World Conference against Racism Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance)

Historical

The Ten Commandments

The Code of Hammurabi

The Charter of Cyrus

The Twelve Tables of Rome

The Magna Carta

Petition of Rights (1628)

Treaty of Westphalia

Habeas Corpus Act (1679)

English Bill of Rights

American Declaration of Independence

French Declaration of the Rights of Man

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