Subject Guide
Conventions
- Convention on the Rights of the ChildAvailable online via HeinOnline (Treaties and Agreements Library).
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with DisabilitiesUN 2006. entered into force 3 May 2008.
- Maternity Protection Convention, 2000International Labour Organisation.
- Occupational Safety and Health Convention of 1981International Labour Organisation.
Declarations
A declaration "declares existing law, with or without modification, or creates new law, ... [or] affirms some common principle of policy .... ([or may be] published after a conference of ... heads of State .... The contents of these documents are partly agreements to do or not to do something, and partly records of agreement upon a common policy....") McNair, Law of Treaties (2nd ed., 1961) 23*
- Declaration of HelsinkiEthical principles for medical research involving human subjects, the World Medical Association (WMA). Adopted 1964; amended 1975, 1983, 1989, 1996, 2000.
- Declaration of Hong Kong on the Abuse of the ElderlyWMA 1989, revised 1990 and 2005.
- Declaration of Sydney on the Determination of Death and the Recovery of OrgansWMA 1968, amended 1983, 2006.
- Declaration on Banning the Cloning of Human BeingsEuropean Council, 1997.
- Declaration on EuthanasiaWMA, 1987, amended 2005.
- Declaration on Terminal IllnessWMA 1983, revised 2006.
- Declaration on the Human Genome ProjectWMA 1992, rescinded 2005.
- Declaration on the Rights of the PatientWMA 1981, amended 1995, 2005.
- Declaration on Therapeutic AbortionWMA 1970, amended 1983, 2006.
- International Declaration on Human Genetic DataUNESCO 2003.
- Review and Approval of Proposed Amendments to the International Health Regulations, A/IHR/IGWGThe legal issue of reservations and objections to the IHR was itself a subject of debate and is treated in the documents of the IGWG.
