The proposed Convention on the Rights of Older Persons (UNCROP) is likely to be the next major human rights treaty adopted by the United Nations. The...

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is an international human rights treaty of the United Nations intended to protect the rights...

The United States has signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC); however, it remains the only United Nations member state...

of a United Nations convention on the rights of older persons. The organisation engages in lobbying and advocacy efforts at the national and international...

persons is a legal term under international humanitarian law and refers to persons who are under specific protection of the 1949 Geneva Conventions,...

of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. The Refugee Convention builds on Article 14 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights...

ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2008. New Zealand became a member of the United Nations on October...

: 125  Japan ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) on 20 January 2014. In 1998 the government estimated...

the basis of racial or ethnic origin in relation to a number of economic, social and cultural rights. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities...

The National Women's Rights Convention was an annual series of meetings that increased the visibility of the early women's rights movement in the United...