Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences

International Standards

Universal Declaration of Human Rights 

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights  

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights  

Convention on the Political Rights of Women

 Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 

Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), General recommendation No. 19

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict

Trafficking in persons, especially women and children Protocol to The Convention against Transnational Organized Crime

E/2002/68/Add.1 Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking

Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others

Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women

Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War

Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol II)

Regional Instruments

African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights

Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa ( Maputo , Mozambique , 11 July 2003 )

Council of Europe