Standard-setting instruments
- Protocol amending the Slavery Convention (1953)
- Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery (1956)
- Slavery Convention (1926)
- Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others (1949)
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (2000)
- Forced Labour Convention (1930)
- Abolition of Forced Labour Convention (1957)
- Durban Declaration Against Racism Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (2001). The United Nations World Conference Against Racism Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance took place in Durban, South Africa.
- UN Resolution on the Bicentennial Commemoration of the Abolition of the Slave Trade (2006)
- The Durban Review Conference (2009) The Durban Review Conference took place on 20 to 24 April 2009 in Geneva, Switzerland.