Concerted efforts have been made by United Nations Organization and international law to protect, nurture and improve the economic, social and political conditions of man, woman and child world over. There is tremendous pressure on States to provide a minimum standard of life alongwith personal, social and economic freedoms. Thus, people need to be made aware of the Human Rights, newly recognized status, rights and remedies available to them under international law and social polity. Correspondingly, the States are also under new obligations to make human rights real proposition through definitions and enforcement. This book is intended to give the source material on the wide-ranging Human Rights comprising of Conventions, Treaties or Resolutions of UNO among others. Now there is a viable regime of human rights in a distinguishable form. The book makes an in-depth presentation of Human Rights, spread in wide ranging twenty-one sections: • Those that are directly under international law or UNO sanction, viz. the International Bills on Human Rights, the Right of Self-determination and Proactive Humanitarian Law through World Conference and Millennium Assembly, Environment Protection, Protection of Human Rights through International Human Rights Commission. • Those that operate through States, viz. Protective Treatment of Indigenous People, Minorities, Women, Family, Marriage, Children, Older Persons, Persons under Disability, Labour Welfare, Freedom from Slavery, Humane Treatment of Aliens or Prisoners, Traffic in Human Beings, Freedom of Association. • Human Rights that give or deny Status to Individuals, viz. Nationality, Statelessness, Asylum and Refugees, Migrants, including processes for Justice against Arbitrariness, Denial of Human Rights or Discrimination, Extradition and Surrender of Fugitives. • Wars cause catastrophe for Human Rights. This book presents Documents and Conventions on War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity and International Criminal Court. All the elemental principles emanating from the various Documents on Human Rights incorporated in this book have been summarized in the “Introduction” for the convenience of the readers.

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VOLUME I THE INTERNATIONAL BILL OF HUMAN RIGHTS 1. Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Aiming at the Abolition of the Death Penalty 2. Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 3. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 4. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 5. Universal Declaration of Human Rights WORLD CONFERENCE AND MILLENNIUM ASSEMBLY 6. United Nations Millennium Declaration 7. Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action THE RIGHT OF SELF-DETERMINATION 8. International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries 9. General Assembly resolution 1803 (XVII) of 14 December 1962, “Permanent sovereignty over natural resources” 10. Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND MINORITIES 11. Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities 12. Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169) PREVENTION OF DISCRIMINATION 13. Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief 14. Declaration on Race and Racial Prejudice 15. International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 16. Protocol Instituting a Conciliation and Good Offices Commission to be Responsible for Seeking a Settlement of Any Disputes which may arise between States Parties to the Convention against Discrimination in Education 17. Convention against Discrimination in Education 18. Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111) 19. Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) RIGHTS OF WOMEN 20. Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 21. Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women 22. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 23. Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict RIGHTS OF THE CHILD 24. Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography 25. Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict 26. Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182) 27. Convention on the Rights of the Child 28. Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) RIGHTS OF OLDER PERSONS 29. United Nations Principles for Older Persons