ANNEX ‐ The major Regional and International Human Rights
Instruments (Signed, Ratified or Acceded to by the Republic of Liberia)
Regional Human Rights Instrument
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African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights;
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Establishment
of an African Court on Human and People’s Rights;
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on Rights of Women
in Africa;
African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child;
African Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption.
International Human Rights Instruments
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Convention on the Rights of the Child;
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement
of Children in Armed Conflict;
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of
Children, Child prostitution and Child Pornography;
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;
Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights, Aiming at the Abolition of the Death Penalty;
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination;
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights;
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women;
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women;
Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
Punishment;
Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and
Degrading Treatment or Punishment;
Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of
the Prostitution of Others;
Final Protocol to the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of
the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others; and
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
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