Human rights — the five instruments, in full

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Published by United Nations — un.org (UN Department of Global Communications) for the Universal Declaration; OHCHR for the two Covenants and the Convention on the Rights of the Child; the UN documents service for the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (A/RES/61/295).
Each instrument as adopted: Universal Declaration of Human Rights, proclaimed 10 December 1948 (General Assembly resolution 217 A) · International Covenants on Civil and Political and on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Assembly resolution 2200A (XXI) of 16 December 1966 · Convention on the Rights of the Child, General Assembly resolution 44/25 of 20 November 1989 — the 1989 text, whose article 43 (2) still reads “ten experts” although an amendment raising the Committee to eighteen entered into force in 2002 · United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, General Assembly resolution 61/295 of 13 September 2007. None of the five sources states a later consolidation..

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