Key Conventions and Declarations Supporting Gender Equality
- Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions Re. Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts 1949
- Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 1950
- Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic of Persons and the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others 1951 (PDF)
- Convention on the Political Rights of Women 1954
- Convention to the Consent of Marriage, Minimum Age of Marriage, and Registration of Marriages 1964 (PDF)
- Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict 1974 (PDF)
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) 1979
- Declaration of the Elimination of Violence Against Women 1993
- CEDAW’s Optional Protocol 2000