Oxford LibGuides: LGBTI law: Treaties & International Human Rights

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Free resource from OHCHR website. At present, there are over 500 different translations available in HTML and/or PDF format. But the project of translating it continues
OHCHR Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Official website of the leading UN entity on human rights.
United Nations Human Rights Council
Official website
UN Free & Equal
UN Free & Equal is an initiative of the United Nations Human Rights Office.

In December 2010, the then Secretary-General of the UN, Ban Ki-moon, delivered a speech in New York calling for worldwide decriminalization of homosexuality and protection of LGBT individuals from violence and discrimination.

Secretary-General's speech on Human Rights day, 2010
Free resource. Transcript of Ban Ki-moon's speech on Ending Violence and Criminal Sanctions Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, 9th December 2010.
Resolution 17/19 Human rights, sexual orientation and gender identity
Official document of UN Human Right's Council A/HRC/RES/17/19. Commissioned a study on discrimination and violence against LGBT individuals.
Discriminatory laws and practices and acts of violence against individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender identity Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Official document A/HRC/19/41
Human Rights Council Panel on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Free resource. Information on the panel discussion on LGBT rights held in March 2012.
Born free and equal : Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Sex Characteristics (2nd edn, 2019)
Free resource. PDF produced by the OHCHR in 2012 on sexual orientation and gender identity in international human rights law.
Speeches and statements on LGBT rights
Free resource. Links to speeches and statements by OHCHR and UN representatives on LGBT rights. Includes speeches from the Global Forum for the International Day against Homophobia, The Hague, 17 May 2013.
Combatting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity
Free resource. Policies for combatting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Core international human rights instruments
OHCHR maintained portal to international conventions on human rights and their monitoring bodies.

European Convention on Human Rights

European Convention on Human Rights
Official website. Particularly article 8, the right to respect for private and family life, and article 12, prohibition of discrimination
HUDOC: European Court of Human Rights database
Search screen for database of decisions. Use the left hand column to set sensible filters or construct a search string
European Court of Human Rights Thematic Factsheets
Open Access. The Court's Press Office produces & updates "factsheets by theme on the Court’s case-law and pending cases." Note the fact sheets are non-binding.

Going to Strasbourg : an oral history of sexual orientation discrimination and the European Convention on Human Rights by Paul Johnson
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link
ISBN: 9780198777618
Publication Date: 2016
Print copy is at KM208.2 JOH 2016

International Human Rights are the subject of a separate Bodleian guide

Human Rights
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