As well as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, there are a number of other United Nations human rights declarations, treaties and conventions of potential relevance to social workers. The texts are not reproduced here, because of space limitations, but they are readily available from UN sources, from the Internet, or from various books in which they are reprinted (e.g. Ishay 1997).

This list does not include important regional human rights documents, such as the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights, the American Convention on Human Rights, the African Charter on Human and People's Rights, and so on. These are important for social workers working in those regions but are not included here because the list is meant to be of use for social workers in any country. It also does not include national bills of rights or human rights declarations and legislation. Readers are encouraged to investigate the national and regional human rights documents, agreements, conventions and charters that apply to their own regional and national settings.

The full texts of the following documents, in different translations, can be found through the website of the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights (www.unhchr.ch).

1. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

2. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

3. Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights allowing for an individual to appeal to the UN if their rights have been violated

4. Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty

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