Annex 1International and regional human rights treaties and consensus documents providing protection and containing safeguards against female genital mutilation

International treaties

Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted 10 December 1948. General Assembly Resolution 217. UN Doc. A/810. http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/

Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, adopted 28 July 1951 (entry into force, 22 April 1954). http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49da0e466.html

Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees, adopted 31 January 1967 (entry into force, 4 October 1967). https://treaties.un.org/pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=V-5&chapter=5&lang=en

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, adopted 16 December 1966 (entry into force, 23 March 1976). https://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=IND&mtdsg_no=IV-4&chapter=4&lang=en

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, adopted 16 December 1966 (entry into force, 3 January 1976). http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CESCR.aspx

Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women, adopted 18 December 1979 (entry into force, 3 September 1981). http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/text/econvention.htm

Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 39/46 of 10 December 1984 (entry into force, 26 June 1987). http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CAT.aspx

Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted 20 November 1989. General Assembly Resolution 44/25. UN GAOR 44th session, Supp. No. 49. UN Doc. A/44/49 (entry into force, 2 September 1990). http://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/crc.aspx

Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. General Recommendation No. 14, 1990, Female circumcision; General Recommendation No. 19, 1992, Violence against women; and General Recommendation No. 24, 1999, Women and health. http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/recommendations/recomm.htm

Human Rights Committee. General Comment No. 20, 1992. Prohibition of torture and cruel treatment or punishment. http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/Pages/TBGeneralComments.aspx

Human Rights Committee. General Comment No. 28, 2000. Equality of rights between men and women. CCPR/C/21/rev.1/Add.10. http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Education/Training/Compilation/Pages/b)GeneralCommentNo28Theequalityofrightsbetweenmenandwomen(article3)(2000).aspx

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. General Comment No. 14, 2000. The right to the highest attainable standard of health. UN Doc. E/C.12/2000/4. http://www.refworld.org/pdfid/4538838do.pdf

Committee on the Rights of the Child. General Comment No. 4, 2003. Adolescent health and development in the context of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. CRC/GC/2003/4. http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Women/WRGS/Health/GC4.pdf

Regional treaties

European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, adopted 4 November 1950 (entry into force, 3 September 1953). http://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Convention_ENG.pdf

American Convention on Human Rights (entry into force, 18 July 1978). http://www.oas.org/dil/treaties_B-32_American_Convention_on_Human_Rights.htm

African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (Banjul Charter), adopted 27 June 1981. Organization of African Unity. Doc. CAB/LEG/67/3/Rev. 5 (1981), reprinted in 21 I.L.M. 59 (1982) (entry into force, 21 October 1986). https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%201520/volume-1520-I-26363-English.pdf

African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, adopted 11 July 1990. Organization of African Unity. Doc. CAB/LEG/24.9/49 (entry into force, 29 November 1999). http://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6b38c18.html

Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, adopted 11 July 2003, Assembly of the African Union (entry into force, 25 November 2005). http://www.achpr.org/instruments/women-protocol/

Consensus documents

United Nations General Assembly, Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, UN Doc. A/RES/48/104 (1993). http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/48/a48r104.htm

World Conference on Human Rights, Vienna Declaration and Plan of Action, June 1993. UN Doc. DPI/ 1394-39399 (August 1993). http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/Vienna.aspx

Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, Egypt, 5-13 September 1994. UN Doc. A/CONF.171/13/Rev. 1 (1995). https://www.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/event-pdf/PoA_en.pdf

Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, China, 4–15 September 1995. UN Doc. A/CONF.177/20. http://www.un.org/esa/gopher-data/conf/fwcw/off/a--20.en

UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity, adopted 2 November 2001. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001271/127162e.pdf

Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, adopted October 2005 (entry into force, March 2007). http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001429/142919e.pdf

United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Commission on the Status of Women. Resolution on the Ending of Female Genital Mutilation. March 2007. E/CN.6/2007/L.3/Rev.1. http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/csw52/AC_resolutions/Final%20L2%20ending%20female%20genital%20mutilation%20-%20advance%20unedited.pdf