Regional instruments
(in reverse chronological order)
- Inter-American Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Persons With Disabilities (1999)
- European Convention on Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (1997)
- Arab Charter on Human Rights (1994)
- Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women Convention of Belem do Para. (1994)
- African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (1990)
- Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights to Abolish the Death Penalty (1990)
- Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - Protocol of San Salvador (1988)
- Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture (1985)
- African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (1981)
- American Convention on Human Rights (1969)
- European Social Charter (1961, Revised 1996)
- European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1950)
- American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man (1948)