Regional Standard-setting Instruments on Women's Rights

• African Union - Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights of Women in Africa
  Adopted by the Conference of Heads of State and Government Maputo – Mozambique July 2003

• Arab Countries - Cairo Declaration for the Elimination of FGM [PDF, 215 KB]
  Legal tools for the prevention of female genital mutilation, 2003

• Arab Countries - Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam
  Adopted by the Organization of the Islamic Conference in 1990, reprinted in U. N. Doc. A/Conf. 157/PC/62/Add.18 (1993) -- and Columbia University Center for the Study of Human Rights, Twenty-Five Human Rights Documents 190-193 (1994)

• Arab Countries - The Casablanca Declaration of the Arab Human Rights Movement
  Adopted by the First International Conference of the Arab Human Rights Movement, 1999

• Council of Europe - Declaration on the Equality of Women and Men [PDF, 66 KB]
  Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 16 November 1988 at its 83rd session

• Council of Europe - Declaration on the Rape of Women and Children in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia
  Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 18 February 1993 at the 488th meeting of the Ministers' Deputies

• Council of Europe - Recommendation N 1261 (1995) on the Situation of Immigrant Women in Europe
  Adopted by the Standing Committee, acting on behalf of the Assembly, on 15 March 1995

• Council of Europe - Recommendation No. R (84) 17 on Equality Between Women and Men in the Media [PDF, 165 KB]
  Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 25 September 1984 at the 375th meeting of the Ministers' Deputies

• Council of Europe - Recommendation No. R (85) 2 on Legal Protection against Sex Discrimination [PDF, 205 KB] 
  Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 5 February 1985 at the 380th meeting of the Ministers' Deputies

• Council of Europe - Recommendation N° 1146 (1991) on Equal Opportunities and Equal Treatment for women and men on the Labour-Market
  Adopted by the Standing Committee, acting on behalf of the Assembly, on 11 March 1991

• Council of Europe - Recommendation N° 1229 (1994) on Equality of Rights between Men and Women
  Adopted by the Assembly on 24 January 1994 at its 1st sitting

• Council of Europe - Recommendation N° 1269 (1995) on Achieving Real Progress in Women's Rights as from 1995
  Adopted by the Assembly on 27 April 1995 at its 15th sitting

• Council of Europe - Recommendation N° 1271 (1995) on Discrimination between Men and Women in the Choice of a Surname and in the Passing on of Parents’ Surnames to Children
  Adopted by the Assembly on 28 April 1995 at its 16th Sitting

• Council of Europe - Recommendation N° 1321 (1997) on Improving the Situation of Women in Rural Society
  Adopted by the Standing Committee, acting on behalf of the Assembly, on 19 March 1997

• Council of Europe - Recommendation N° 1325 (1997) on Traffic in Women and Forced Prostitution in Council of Europe Member States
  Adopted by the Assembly on 23 April 1997 at its 13th sitting

• Council of Europe - Recommendation N° 741 (1974) on the Legal Position of Women
  Adopted by the Assembly on 30 September 1974 at its 15th sitting

• Council of Europe - Recommendation N° R (90) 4 on the Elimination of Sexism from Language [PDF, 110 KB]
  Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 21 February 1990 at the 434th meeting of the Ministers' Deputies

• OAS - Convention on the Nationality of Women
  Signed on 26 December 1933 in Montevideo at the 7th International Conference of American States entry into force: 29 August 1934

• OAS - Inter-American Convention on the Granting of Civil Rights to Women
  Signed at the Ninth International Conference of American States. Entry into force : 22 April 1949

• OAS - Inter-American Convention on the Granting of Political Rights to Women
  Signed on 2 May 1948 at the 9th International Conference of American States entry into force: 22 April 1949

• OAS - Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women - Convention of Belem do Para
  Adopted on 9 June 1994 by the General Assembly of the Organization of American States at its 24th session entry into force: 5 March 1995, in accordance with Article 21

• OSCE - Concluding Document of Madrid, 1983
  "Questions relating to Security in Europe", par. 16

• OSCE - Concluding Document of Vienna, 1989
  "Questions relating to Security in Europe", par. 15

• OSCE - Document of the Moscow Meeting of the Conference on Human Dimension, 1991

• OSCE - Istanbul Document, 1999
  Charter for European Security, par. 23 and 24