List of Treaties related to the Advancement of Rights of Women and Children

1.      Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. New York, 18 December 1979

2.      Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. New York, 6  October 1999

3.      Convention on the Rights of the Child. New York, 20 November 1989

4.      Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict. New York, 25 May 2000

5.      Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. New York, 25 May 2000

6.      International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. New York, 7 March 1966

7.      Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. New York, 10 December  1984

8.      International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. New York,16 December 1966

9.      International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. New York, 16 December 1966

10.    Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.  New York, 16 December 1966

11.    Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty. New York, 15 December 1989

12.    International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and  Members of their Families. New York, 18 December 1990

13.    Convention on the Political Rights of Women. New York, 31 March 1953

14.    Convention on the Nationality of Married Women. New York, 20 February 1957

15.    Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of  Marriages. New York, 10 December 1962

16.    United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. New York, 15 November 2000

17.    Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. New York, 15 November 2000

18.    Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the  United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. New York, 15 November 2000

19.    Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others. Lake  Success, New York, 21 March 1950

20.    Final Protocol to the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others. Lake Success, New York, 21 March 1950

21.    Slavery Convention, signed at Geneva on 25 September 1926 and amended by the Protocol done at the Headquarters of the United Nations, New York, on 7 December 1953. New York, 7 December 1953

22.    Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery. Geneva, 7 September 1956

23.    Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Rome, 17 July 1998