Legal Instruments Underpinning the Sphere Handbook Download a PDF format of all annexes
The following instruments inform the Humanitarian Charter and the Minimum Standards in Disaster Response:
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948.
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966.
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 1966.
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 1969.
The four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their two Additional Protocols of 1977.
Convention relating to the Status of Refugees 1951 and the Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees 1967.
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 1984.
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide 1948.
Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989.
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women 1979.
Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons 1960.
Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement 1998.
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