CHAPTER THREE: DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL GOVERNANCE
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Name and date of adoption
Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to
Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
9 December 1998
Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on
Religion or Belief
25 November 1981
Declaration on Fundamental Principles concerning the Contribution of the Mass Media to
Strengthening Peace and International Understanding, to the Promotion of Human Rights and
to Countering Racialism, Apartheid and Incitement to War
28 November 1978
Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic
minorities
18 December 1992
Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power
29 November 1985
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security
31 October 2000
Table no. 3.2: ILO
Name and date of adoption
Freedom of Association and Protection
of the Right to Organise Convention,
1948 (No. 87)
9 July 1948
78
Date of coming into
force
Date of deposit of
instrument of
succession,
ratification or
accession by Burkina
Faso
4 July 1950
21 November 1960