Skip navigation links Sitemap | About us | FAQs

UN Programme on Disability   Working for full participation and equality

 

Article 12 - Equal recognition as a person before the law

Background Documents | Article 12 Background
Seventh Session | Fifth Session | Fourth Session | Third Session
Working Group
| References

References

 

International human rights conventions and other legal instruments

 


 

Article 12
Related to para. 1

ICCPR, Article 16: Everyone shall have the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.


CEDAW, Article 15 (1): States Parties shall accord to women equality with men before the law.


CMW, Article 24: Every migrant worker and every member of his or her family shall have the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

 

 

Back to top

 


Home | Sitemap | About us | FAQs | Contact us

© United Nations, 2006
Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Division for Social Policy and Development