The United Nations has formulated and ratified various treaties and international conventions to protect the civil, political, economic, and social rights of people. In this section you can familiarize yourself with details of the major international conventions and human rights treaties.

• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
• Second Optional Protocol to the Int'l Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
• International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination
• Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, Fourth World Conference on Women
• Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
• Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War
• Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
• International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights
• International Conference on Population and Development