Goodhart: Human Rights
Links to key human rights documents
Chapter 1
US Declaration of Independence, 1776
www.ushistory.org/declaration/
French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, 1789
www.hrcr.org/docs/frenchdec.html
US Bill of Rights (and later amendments), 1791
www.ushistory.org/documents/amendments.htm
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/eng.htm
Chapter 2
Rome Statute on the International Criminal Court, 1988
http://untreaty.un.org/cod/icc/statute/99_corr/cstatute.htm
The Geneva Conventions and Protocols of 1949 and 1977
www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/genevaconventions
UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, 1981
www.hrcr.org/docs/CEDAW/cedaw.html
Chapter 3
UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1976
www.hrcr.org/docs/Civil&Political/intlcivpol.html
UN International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 1976
www.hrcr.org/docs/Economic&Social/intlconv.html
Chapter 4
The Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, 1975
www1.umn.edu/humanrts/osce/basics/finact75.htm
ICISS Report ‘The Responsibility to Protect: The Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty’, 2001
www.iciss.ca/report-en.asp
Chapter 5
Vienna Declaration and Plan of Action, Vienna World Conference on Human Rights, 1993
www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/l1viedec.html
ICC Position Paper, National Human Rights Institutions and the UN Human Rights Council, 2006
www.nhri.net/pdf/Final_ICC_Position_270606.pdf
Chapter 6
Mary Robinson’s speech on sociology and human rights, 2004
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/08/13/EDGFT87CT01.DTL
Declaration on Anthropology and Human Rights, 1999
www.aaanet.org/stmts/humanrts.htm
Chapter 7
Statute of the International Committee of the Red Cross, 1863
www.hck.hr/doc/Medunarodni_odbor_statuteENG.pdf
UN Convention on the Punishment and Prevention of the Crime of Genocide, 1948
www.hrweb.org/legal/genocide.html
UN Declaration on the Right to Development, 1986
www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/74.htm
Chapter 8
Martin Luther King 'I have a dream' speech', 1963
www.mlkonline.net/speeches.html
US Civil and Voting Rights Act, 1964
http://uspolitics.about.com/od/usgovernment/a/civilRights_act.htm
Chapter 9
UN International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 1976
www.hrcr.org/docs/Economic&Social/intlconv.html
European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 1987
www.hrcr.org/docs/Eur_Conv_Torture/eurotort.html
Rome Statute on the International Criminal Court, 1988
http://untreaty.un.org/cod/icc/statute/99_corr/cstatute.htm
World Social Forum Charter of Principles, 2002
www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/main.php?id_menu=4&cd_language=2
Chapter 10
UN Declaration on the Right to Development, 1986
www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/74.htm
UNESCO strategy on Human Rights: Further integrating a human rights-based approach into all of UNESCO's programmes, 2003
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001457/145734e.pdf
UNDP Millennium Development Goals report, 2008
www.undp.org/publications/MDG_Report_2008_En.pdf
Chapter 11
UN Global Compact – the Ten Principles in the area of Human Rights
www.unglobalcompact.org/AboutTheGC/TheTenPrinciples/index.html
Speech ‘On Corporate Responsibility for Human Rights’ - paper by Klaus Leisinger, Special Advisor to the Secretary General on the Global Compact, 2006
www.unglobalcompact.org/docs/news_events/9.6/corpresforhr_kl.pdf
UN Declaration on the Right to Development, 1986
www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/74.htm
Chapter 12
UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, 1981
www.hrcr.org/docs/CEDAW/cedaw.html
African Charter on Human and People's Rights, 1986
www.hrcr.org/docs/Banjul/afrhr.html
Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act ( USA), 2000
www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=5cca6138f898d010VgnVCM10000048f3d6a1RCRD&vgnextchannel=48819c7755cb9010VgnVCM10000045f3d6a1RCRD
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children, 2000
www2.ohchr.org/english/law/protocoltraffic.htm
Chapter 13
League of Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child, 1924
www.un-documents.net/gdrc1924.htm
UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child, 1959
www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/25.htm
UNICEF Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989
www.unicef.org/crc/
African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, 1999
www1.umn.edu/humanrts/africa/afchild.htm
Chapter 14
UN Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, 1951
www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/o_c_ref.htm
OAU Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa, 1974
www.achpr.org/english/_info/refugee_en.html
Chapter 15
UN Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD), 1965
www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/d_icerd.htm
UN Declaration on Race and Racial Prejudice, 1982
www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/d2drp.htm
Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989
www.ilo.org/ilolex/cgi-lex/convde.pl?C169
UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People, 2007
www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/declaration.html
Chapter 16
UN Convention on the Punishment and Prevention of the Crime of Genocide, 1948
www.hrweb.org/legal/genocide.html
Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, 2007
http://69.94.11.53/ENGLISH/basicdocs/statute/2007.pdf
(Updated) Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, 2008
www.icty.org/x/file/Legal%20Library/Statute/statute_sept08_en.pdf
Chapter 17
European Convention on Human Rights, 1950
www.hrcr.org/docs/Eur_Convention/euroconv.html
Convention Against Torture, 1984
www.un.org/millennium/law/iv-9.htm
Chapter 18
UN Declaration on the Right to Development, 1986
www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/74.htm
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, 1992
www.un-documents.net/rio-dec.htm
UNFCC Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change, 1997
unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/kpeng.html
Chapter 19
UN Convention on the Punishment and Prevention of the Crime of Genocide, 1948
www.hrweb.org/legal/genocide.html
ICISS Report ‘The Responsibility to Protect: The Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty’, 2001
www.iciss.ca/report-en.asp
(Updated) Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, 2008
www.icty.org/x/file/Legal%20Library/Statute/statute_sept08_en.pdf
Chapter 20
Tokyo War Crimes Trials
www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/nuremberg/tokyo.htm
Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, 2007
http://69.94.11.53/ENGLISH/basicdocs/statute/2007.pdf
Rome Statute on the International Criminal Court, 1988
http://untreaty.un.org/cod/icc/statute/99_corr/cstatute.htm
South Africa Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 1995
www.doj.gov.za/trc/
Report of Chilean Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Retting Commission), 1993
www.usip.org/library/tc/doc/reports/chile/chile_1993_foreward.html
