International Frameworks
Core human rights frameworks
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
Convention on the rights of the child (1989) and its optional protocols on the involvement of children in armed conflicts and on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography (2000)
Convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women (1979)
International covenant on economic, social and cultural rights (1966)
International covenant on civil and political rights (1966)
International convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination (1965)
Geneva conventions and related protocols
Geneva Conventions and their additional protocols (1949)
1951 Refugee convention
Convention (1951) and additional protocol (1976) relating to the status of refugees
International Labour Organisation
Profits and Poverty: The Economics of Forced Labour. Report (2014)
Convention concerning the worst forms of child labour C182 (1999)
Recommendation concerning migrant workers No.151 (1975)
Discrimination (employment and occupation) convention C111 (1958)
Protection of migrant workers (underdeveloped countries) recommendation No.100 (1955)
Migration for employment convention C97 (1949)
Migration for employment recommendation No.86 (1949)
Conventions 29 and 105 on Forced Labour (1957)
UN
Convention against transnational organised crime and its protocols to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking in persons and against the smuggling of migrants by land, air and sea (2000)
Guiding principles on internal displacement (1998)
Slavery Convention (1926)
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)
Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)
Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography (2000)
Convention against Transnational Organised Crime 2004 (UNTOC)
Council of Europe
European Convention on Human Rights
Convention on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings
Regional Instruments
Americas
American convention on human rights and its additional protocol (1988)
Cartagena declaration on refugees (1984)
American declaration on the rights and duties of man (1948)
Africa
African charter on the rights and welfare of the child (1990)
African charter on human and peoples’ rights (1981)
Convention governing the specific aspects of refugee problems in Africa (1969)
Europe
European social charter (Revised 1996)
Convention on the participation of foreigners in public life at local level (1992)
European convention on the legal status of migrant workers (1977)