Major UN Documents – Nonbinding

Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child (League of Nations, 1924)      

Charter of the United Nations (1945)

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR 1948)

Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1959)

World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children (1990)

Plan of Action for Implementing the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children in the 1990s (1990)

Conference on Environment and Development, Agenda 21, Rio (1992)

Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action (1993)

International Conference on Population and Development, including declarations and reservations, Cairo (1994)

Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing (1995)   Declarations and Reservations

World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen (1995)   Declarations and Reservations

United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, Istanbul (1996)

ICPD+5: Key Actions for Further Implementation..., New York (1999)

Beijing+5: Further Actions and Initiatives..., New York (2000)   Declarations and Reservations

United Nations Millennium Declaration, New York (2000)

Istanbul+5: Declaration on Cities..., New York (2001)

A World Fit for Children, New York (2002)

Second World Assembly on Ageing, Madrid (2002)

World Summit on Sustainable Development (including interpretive statements, pp. 142-149), Johannesburg (2002)

Millennium Summit+5, New York (2005)

Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS, New York (2006)

Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS, New York (2011)

The Future We Want: Outcome Document of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (RIO + 20 2012)