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Human rights instruments
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural RightsThe International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights traces its origins to the 1945 San Francisco Conference where delegates drafted a…
- Paris AgreementThe 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris brought together 196 parties to draft a new international treaty.
- International Covenant on Civil and Political RightsThe United Nations General Assembly adopted the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on the 16th of December 1966.
- Declaration by United NationsThe Allied nations first articulated their shared vision in the Declaration of St. James's Palace during June 1941. This agreement emerged from the First…
- International humanitarian lawHenry Dunant stood on the field of Solferino in 1863 and saw thousands of wounded soldiers left to die without care. The air smelled of blood and rotting…
- Universal Declaration of Human RightsIn the winter of 1942, a young woman named Anne Frank wrote in her diary about the horrors she witnessed during World War II.
- Oration on the Dignity of ManGiovanni Pico della Mirandola wrote the Oration on the Dignity of Man in 1486. He was an Italian scholar and philosopher living during the Renaissance.
- Emancipation ProclamationThe United States Constitution of 1787 did not use the word slavery but included several provisions about unfree persons.