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International human rights conventions and other legal instruments
(Draft Article 5)
- ICESCR: International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- ICCPR: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- CERD: Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
- CEDAW: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
- CAT: Convention Against Torture
- CRC: Convention on the Rights of the Child
- ILO Convention 159: Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons)
- ILO Recommendation 168: Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons)
Related to Draft Article 5, paragraph 1 (a)
CRC, Article 42: States Parties undertake to make the principles and
provisions of the Convention widely known, by appropriate and active means,
to adults and children alike.
Cfr. CERD, Article 7: States Parties undertake to adopt immediate and
effective measures, particularly in the fields of teaching, education,
culture and information, with a view to combating prejudices which lead
to racial discrimination and to promoting understanding, tolerance and
friendship among nations and racial or ethnical groups, as well as to
propagating the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations Declaration
on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, and this Convention.
Cfr. CEDAW, Article 3: States Parties shall take in all fields, in particular
in the political, social, economic and cultural fields, all appropriate
measures, including legislation, to en sure the full development and advancement
of women , for the purpose of guaranteeing them the exercise and enjoyment
of human rights and fundamental freedoms on a basis of equality with men.
Related to Draft Article 5, paragraph 1 (b)
Cfr. CERD, Article 7: States Parties undertake to adopt immediate and
effective measures, particularly in the fields of teaching, education,
culture and information, with a view to combating prejudices which lead
to racial discrimination and to promoting understanding, tolerance and
friendship among nations and racial or ethnical groups, as well as to
propagating the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations Declaration
on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, and this Convention.
Cfr. CEDAW, Article 5(a): To modify the social and cultural patterns
of conduct of men and women, with a view to achieving the elimination
of prejudices and customary and all other practices which are based on
the idea of the inferiority or the superiority of either of the sexes
or on stereotyped roles for men and women;
See also CEDAW, Article 10(c): States Parties shall take all appropriate
measures to eliminate discrimination against women in order to ensure
to them equal rights with men in the field of education and in particular
to ensure, on a basis of equality of men and women: … (c) The elimination
of any stereotyped concept of the roles of men and women at all levels
and in all forms of education by encouraging coeducation and other types
of education which will help to achieve this aim and, in particular, by
the revision of textbooks and school programmes and the adaptation of
teaching methods;
Related to Draft Article 5, paragraph 2 (a)
CRC, Article 42: States Parties undertake to make the principles and
provisions of the Convention widely known, by appropriate and active means,
to adults and children alike.
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