• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and its Optional Protocol
  
  
• Convention on the Political Rights of Women
  
  
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  
  
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
  
  
• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)
  
  
• Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention (ILO No. 111)
  
  
• Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children
  
  
• Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women
  
  
• Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence Against Women (Convention of Belém do Para)
  
  
• Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (1951 Refugee Convention)
  
  

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