Asia Pacific Region

Expert Group Meeting and Seminar on an International Convention to Protect and Promote the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities
Bangkok, Thailand, 2-4 June 2003

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* Getting to Bangkok

 

Pre-Seminar : UNHCHR Materials
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International Bill of Rights

The International Bill of Human Rights recognises the rights to [*] :

Rights UDHR CCPR CESCR
Life 3 6  
Liberty and security of person 3 9  
Protection against slavery 3 6  
Protection against torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment 5 7  
Humane treatment when detained or imprisoned   10  
Recognition as a person before the law 6 16  
Equal protection of the law 7 14 & 26  
Access to legal remedies for rights violations 8 2  
Protection against arbitrary arrest or detention 9 9  
Hearing before an independent and impartial judiciary with all fair trial guarantees 10 14  
Presumption of innocence 11 15  
Protection against ex-post facto laws 11 15  
Protection of privacy family and home 12 17  
Freedom of movement and residence 13 12  
Seek asylum from persecution 14    
Nationality 15    
Marry and found a family 16 23 10
Own property 17    
Freedom or thought, conscience and religion 18 18  
Freedom of expression and to hold opinions 19 19  
Freedom of assembly and association 20 21 & 22  
Political participation 21 25  
Social Security 22   9
Work under favourable conditions 23   6 & 7
Free trade unions 23 22 8
Rest and leisure 24   7
Food, clothing and housing 25   11
Health care and social services 25   12
Special protection for children 24 24 10
Education 26   13 & 14
Participation in cultural life 27   15
Self-determination of peoples   1 1
Protection against imprisonment for debt   11  
Protection against arbitrary expulsion of aliens   13  
Protection against advocacy of racial or religious hatred   20  
Protection of minority culture, language, religion   27  

UDHR = Universal Declaration of Human Rights
CCPR = Convention on Civil and Political Rights
CESCR = Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights


* Based on extract from 'International Human Rights', by Jack Donnelly, Westview Press, reproduced in similar form in The Economist magazine, 5 December 1998

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