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Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 1950, para. 3c
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- 3. For the purpose of this article the term "forced or compulsory labour" shall not include: c. any service exacted in case of an emergency or calamity threatening the life or well-being of the community;
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- Council of Europe
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 1950
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 1950, para. 3b
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- 3. For the purpose of this article the term "forced or compulsory labour" shall not include: b. any service of a military character or, in case of conscientious objectors in countries where they are recognised, service exacted instead of compulsory military service;
- Body
- Council of Europe
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 1950
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. undefined
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- No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 3d
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- 3. For the purposes of this article, the following do not constitute forced or compulsory labor: d. work or service that forms part of normal civic obligations.
- Body
- Organization of American States
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 1969
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 4
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- (4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 2
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- (2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 2
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- (2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. undefined
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- Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 2
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- (2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 1
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- (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 1
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- (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 1
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- (1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 2
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- (2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 1
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- (1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. undefined
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- Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 2
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- (2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. undefined
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- Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. undefined
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- No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. undefined
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- Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. undefined
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- No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. 2
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- For purposes of this Convention: 2. Indirect discrimination shall be taken to occur, in any realm of public and private life, when a seemingly neutral provision, criterion, or practice has the capacity to entail a particular disadvantage for persons belonging to a specific group, or puts them at a disadvantage, unless said provision, criterion, or practice has some reasonable and legitimate objective or justification under international human rights law.
- Body
- Organization of American States
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings 2005, para. 1b
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- 1. Each Party shall adopt such legislative or other measures as may be necessary to provide effective and appropriate protection from potential retaliation or intimidation in particular during and after investigation and prosecution of perpetrators, for: b. As appropriate, those who report the criminal offences established in accordance with Article 18 of this Convention or otherwise co-operate with the investigating or prosecuting authorities;
- Body
- Council of Europe
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2005
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. 3
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- For purposes of this Convention: 3. Multiple or aggravated discrimination is any preference, distinction, exclusion, or restriction based simultaneously on two or more of the criteria set forth in Article 1.1, or others recognized in international instruments, the objective or result of which is to nullify or curtail, the equal recognition, enjoyment, or exercise of one or more human rights and fundamental freedoms enshrined in the international instruments applicable to the States Parties, in any area of public or private life.
- Body
- Organization of American States
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2013
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. vii
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- The states undertake to prevent, eliminate, prohibit, and punish, in accordance with their constitutional norms and the provisions of this Convention, all acts and manifestations of discrimination and intolerance, including: vii. Any distinction, exclusion, restriction, or preference applied to persons, because of their status as victims of multiple or aggravated discrimination, the purpose or result of which is to deny or impair the equal recognition, enjoyment, exercise, or protection of rights and fundamental freedoms;
- Body
- Organization of American States
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2013
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings 2005, para. 4
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- 4. Each Party shall adopt such legislative or other measures as may be necessary to provide, when necessary, appropriate protection from potential retaliation or intimidation in particular during and after investigation and prosecution of perpetrators, for members of groups, foundations, associations or non-governmental organisations which carry out the activities set out in Article 27, paragraph 3.
- Body
- Council of Europe
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2005
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings 2005, para. undefined
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- The Parties shall co-operate with each other, in accordance with the provisions of this Convention, and through application of relevant applicable international and regional instruments, arrangements agreed on the basis of uniform or reciprocal legislation and internal laws, to the widest extent possible, for the purpose of: – preventing and combating trafficking in human beings; – protecting and providing assistance to victims; – investigations or proceedings concerning criminal offences established in accordance with this Convention.
- Body
- Council of Europe
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2005
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. ii
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- The states undertake to prevent, eliminate, prohibit, and punish, in accordance with their constitutional norms and the provisions of this Convention, all acts and manifestations of discrimination and intolerance, including: ii. Publication, circulation or dissemination, by any form and/or means of communication, including the Internet, of any materials that: a. advocate, promote, or incite hatred, discrimination, and intolerance; b. condone, justify, or defend acts that constitute or have constituted genocide or crimes against humanity as defined in international law, or promote or incite the commission of such acts;
- Body
- Organization of American States
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2013
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. undefined
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- The States Parties undertake to adopt legislation that clearly defines and prohibits discrimination and intolerance, applicable to all public authorities as well as to all individuals or natural and legal persons, both in the public and in the private sectors, particularly in the areas of employment; participation in professional organizations; education; training; housing; health; social protection; exercise of economic activity; access to public services and other areas; and to repeal or amend any legislation that constitutes or produces discrimination and intolerance.
- Body
- Organization of American States
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2013
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. undefined
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- The States Parties undertake to adopt the special policies and affirmative actions needed to ensure the enjoyment or exercise of rights and fundamental freedoms of persons or groups that are subject to discrimination or intolerance for the purpose of promoting equitable conditions for equal opportunity, inclusion, and progress for such persons or groups. Such measures or policies shall not be considered discriminatory or incompatible with the purpose or intent of this Convention, shall not lead to maintaining separate rights for different groups, and shall not be continued beyond a reasonable period or after their objective has been achieved.
- Body
- Organization of American States
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2013
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. undefined
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- This Convention shall remain in force indefinitely, but any State Party may denounce it through written notification addressed to the Secretary General of the Organization of American States. The Convention shall cease to have force and effect for the denouncing state one year after the date of deposit of the instrument of denunciation, and shall remain in force for the other States Parties. Such denunciation shall not exempt the State Party from the obligations imposed upon it under this Convention in respect of any action or omission prior to the date on which the denunciation takes effect.
- Body
- Organization of American States
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2013
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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