List of Relevant National and International Laws and Instruments
related to Internally Displaced Persons (IDP)18
Thematic
General
IDP
Name of Instrument
Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement of 11 February 1998
Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 10 December 1948
International
Bill of
Rights
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of 16
December 1966
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of 16 December 1966
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights of 16 December 1966
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment of 10 December 1984
Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel,
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of 18 December 2002
Torture
Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Being Subjected to
Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
of 9 December 1975
Principles on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of 4
December 2000
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced
Enforced
Disappearance of 20 December 2006
Disappeara
Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
nce
of 18 December 1992
Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials of 17 December 1979
United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile
Justice of 29 November 1985 (The Beijing Rules)
Detention
and
Imprisonm
ent
Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of
Detention or Imprisonment of 9 December 1988
Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers of 7 September 1990
Guidelines on the Role of Prosecutors of 7 September 1990
United Nations Guidelines for the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency of 14
December 1990 (The Riyadh Guidelines)
United Nations Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their
UNHCR. Collection of International Instruments and Legal Texts Concerning Refugees and Others of
Concern to UNHCR. Geneva, June 2007.
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