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• Sexual Violence Research Initiative

International and regional human rights instruments and texts relevent to sexual violence

International human rights instruments

• Status of Ratifications
• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  Relevant articles include 10 & 12
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
  Relevant articles include 6,7,20,23 & 26.
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
  Relevant articles include 1,5,6& 16
• Convention on the Rights of the Child
  Relevant articles include 19,27,32,34,35,36,37, 38 & 39
• Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
• Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minmum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages
• Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others
  Relevant articles include 1 & 17
• Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
• Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
• Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (not yet in force)