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International standards
Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
- Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), General recommendation No. 19 (1992) on violence against women
- Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), General recommendation No. 30 (2013) on women in conflict prevention, conflict and post-conflict situations
- Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), General recommendation No. 35 (2017) on gender-based violence against women, updating general recommendation No. 19
- 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
- Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking: E/2002/68/Add.1
- 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
- The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence
- 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)
- Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence Against Women "Convention of Belém Do Pará"
World conferences
- World Conference on Human Rights (Vienna, 1993)
- Vienna +5
- International Conference on Population Development (Cairo, 1994)
- Cairo +15
- Empowering Women
- Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995)
- Beijing +5
- World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (Durban, 2001)
- Durban Review Conference (Geneva, 2009)