UNHCR Policy and International Legal Framework

UNHCR Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD) Policy

Policy on UNHCR’S Engagement in Situations of Internal Displacement (IDP)

This section collates key international treaties and other pertinent legal documents that relate to GBV and groups them in 5 parts:

• UN Charter and International Bill of Rights

Charter of the United Nations

Universal Declaration of Human Rights – UDHR

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights – ICCPR

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights – ICESCR

• International Criminal Law and Humanitarian Law

Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

ICC Elements of Crimes

ICC Policy Paper on Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes

(Fourth) Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War – GCIV

Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts – Protocol I

Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts –Protocol II

Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment – Istanbul Protocol

International Protocol on the Documentation and Investigation of Sexual Violence in Conflict

• Rights of children and youth

Convention on the Rights of the Child – CRC

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography – Annex II

Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages

African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child

African Youth Charter

Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors, Organization of American States

UNHCR Background note on Gender Equality, Nationality Laws and Statelessness

•   Refugees and asylum law

Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees

Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees

UNHCR Guidelines on International Protection: Gender-Related Persecution  

Guidelines on International Protection: Membership of a particular social group

Guidelines on International Protection: Victims of Trafficking and Persons At Risk of Being Trafficked 

Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons

Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa

Cartagena Declaration on Refugees