Human Rights













Human rights policies and meetings
  Human Rights Meetings
Human Rights Policies
 
Ethics
Ethical codes and relevant declarations
  www.web.amnesty.org/rmp/hponline.nsf/ethics
 
NGO policies
Amnesty International Fair Trials Manual
  www.amnesty.org/ailib/themes/fairtria.htm
 
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (non-treaty standard)
  English version
  French version
  Spanish version
 
UN policies on health
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (treaty)
  www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/a_cescr.htm
art. 12: The right to the highest attainable standard of health
General Comment No. 14 on art. 12
  www.unhcr.ch
Principles of Medical Ethics relevant to the Role of Health Personnel, particularly Physicians, in the Protection of Prisoners and Detainees against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (non-treaty standard)
  www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/h_comp40.htm
Universal Declaration on the Eradication of Hunger and Malnutrition
  www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/69.htm
 
UN Policies - general topics
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Treaty)
  www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/h_cat39.htm
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (treaty)
  www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/a_ccpr.htm
Body of Principles for the Protection of all Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment (non-treaty standard)
  www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/h_comp36.htm
Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (non-treaty standard)
  www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/h_comp34.htm
 
WMA policies
  Declaration on human rights and individual freedom of medical practitioners (17.L)
  Resolution on human rights (20.2/90)
  Resolution on reported violations of health-related human rights in Kosova (20.9/98)
  Resolution on the inclusion of medical ethics and human rights in the curriculum of medical schools world-wide (20.4/99)
 
Other Policies
Rights of the Child in Georgia
  Report on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by Georgia (PDF)
A report prepared by for the Committee on the Rights of the Child (34th Session - Geneva, September 2003)
Published by the OMCT - World Organisation Agaisnt Torture and the HRIDC - Human Rights Information and Documentation Center
UN declarations, principles, treaties and conventions
UN policies
  www.unhchr.ch/html/intlinst.htm


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