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Title | Date added | Template | Original document | Paragraph text | Body | Document type | Thematics | Topic(s) | Person(s) affected | Year |
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Protection of journalists and associated media personnel in armed conflict 2015, para. 9 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling the right to freedom of expression reflected in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the General Assembly in 1948 (“the Universal Declaration”), and recalling also the right to freedom of expression in Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights adopted by the General Assembly in 1966 (“ICCPR”) and that any restrictions thereon shall only be such as are provided by law and are necessary on the grounds set out in paragraph 3 of Article 19 of the ICCPR, | United Nations Security Council | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention 2014, para. Preamble 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling the obligation of Members that have ratified the Convention to make forced or compulsory labour punishable as a penal offence, and to ensure that the penalties imposed by law are really adequate and are strictly enforced, and | International Labour Organization | International treaty |
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| 2014 | ||
Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention 2014, para. 4. (1) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 1. Each Member shall ensure that all victims of forced or compulsory labour, irrespective of their presence or legal status in the national territory, have access to appropriate and effective remedies, such as compensation. | International Labour Organization | International treaty |
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| 2014 | ||
Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention 2014, para. 4. (2) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 2. Each Member shall, in accordance with the basic principles of its legal system, take the necessary measures to ensure that competent authorities are entitled not to prosecute or impose penalties on victims of forced or compulsory labour for their involvement in unlawful activities which they have been compelled to commit as a direct consequence of being subjected to forced or compulsory labour. | International Labour Organization | International treaty |
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| 2014 | ||
Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention 2014, para. 1. (1) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 1. In giving effect to its obligations under the Convention to suppress forced or compulsory labour, each Member shall take effective measures to prevent and eliminate its use, to provide to victims protection and access to appropriate and effective remedies, such as compensation, and to sanction the perpetrators of forced or compulsory labour. | International Labour Organization | International treaty |
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| 2014 | ||
The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The settlement of international disputes by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered in accordance with Article 2 (3) of the Charter of the United Nations; | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 2013 | ||
The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. e | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming the sovereign right of any State to regulate and control conventional arms exclusively within its territory, pursuant to its own legal or constitutional system, | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 2013 | ||
The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The States Parties shall make every effort to achieve consensus on each amendment. If all efforts at consensus have been exhausted, and no agreement reached, the amendment shall, as a last resort, be adopted by a three-quarters majority vote of the States Parties present and voting at the meeting of the Conference of States Parties. For the purposes of this Article, States Parties present and voting means States Parties present and casting an affirmative or negative vote. The Depositary shall communicate any adopted amendment to all States Parties. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 2013 | ||
The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. k | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing also the challenges faced by victims of armed conflict and their need for adequate care, rehabilitation and social and economic inclusion, | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 2013 | ||
Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. ii | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 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; | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 2013 | ||
Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | CONVINCED that the principles of equality and non-discrimination among human persons are dynamic democratic concepts that foster the promotion of effective legal equality and presuppose an obligation on the State’s part to adopt special measures to protect the rights of individuals or groups that are victims of discrimination and intolerance, in any area of human endeavor, whether public or private, with a view to cultivating equitable conditions for equal opportunity and to combating discrimination and intolerance in all their individual, structural, and institutional manifestations; | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 2013 | ||
Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | AGREE upon the following: | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 2013 | ||
Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 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. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 2013 | ||
The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Each State Party shall, in exercising its national sovereignty, have the right to withdraw from this Treaty. It shall give notification of such withdrawal to the Depositary, which shall notify all other States Parties. The notification of withdrawal may include an explanation of the reasons for its withdrawal. The notice of withdrawal shall take effect ninety days after the receipt of the notification of withdrawal by the Depositary, unless the notification of withdrawal specifies a later date. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 2013 | ||
The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. h | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Noting the contribution made by the United Nations Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, as well as the Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, and the International Instrument to Enable States to Identify and Trace, in a Timely and Reliable Manner, Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons, | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | For purposes of this Convention:
5. Intolerance is an action or set of actions or expressions that denote disrespect, rejection, or contempt for the dignity, characteristics, convictions, or opinions of persons for being different or contrary. It may manifest itself as marginalization and exclusion of groups in conditions of vulnerability from participation in any sphere of public or private life or violence against them. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 2013 | ||
Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 1. No provision of this Convention shall be interpreted as restricting or limiting a domestic law of any State Party that affords protections and guarantees equal to or greater than those established in this Convention. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Every human being is equal under the law and has a right to equal protection against any form of discrimination and intolerance in any sphere of life, public or private. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 2013 | ||
Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Every human being has the right to the equal recognition, enjoyment, exercise, and protection, at both the individual and collective levels, of all human rights and fundamental freedoms enshrined in their domestic law and in the international instruments applicable to the States Parties. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. iii | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 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:
iii. Violence motivated by any of the criteria set forth in Article 1.1; | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 2013 | ||
Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The States Parties undertake to ensure that the adoption of measures of any kind, including those on security matters, does not discriminate directly or indirectly against persons or groups on the basis of any of the criteria mentioned in Article 1.1 of this Convention. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The States Parties undertake to ensure that their political and legal systems appropriately reflect the diversity within their societies in order meet the legitimate special needs of each sector of the population, in accordance with the scope of this Convention. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The States Parties undertake to conduct research on the nature, causes, and manifestations of discrimination or intolerance in their respective countries, at the local, regional, and national levels, and to collect, compile, and disseminate data on the situation of groups or individuals that are victims of discrimination and intolerance. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The inherent right of all States to individual or collective self-defence as recognized in Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations; | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | THE STATES PARTIES TO THIS CONVENTION, | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | REAFFIRMING the resolute commitment of the member states of the Organization of American States to the complete and unconditional eradication of all forms of discrimination and intolerance, and their conviction that such discriminatory attitudes are a negation of universal values and the inalienable and infrangible rights of the human person and the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the Organization of American States, the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man, the American Convention on Human Rights, the Social Charter of the Americas, the Inter-American Democratic Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights; | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. ix | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 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:
ix. Any restriction or limitation on the use of the language, traditions, customs, and culture of persons in public or private activities; | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The respect for the legitimate interests of States to acquire conventional arms to exercise their right to self-defence and for peacekeeping operations; and to produce, export, import and transfer conventional arms; | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 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. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 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. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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