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Year Adopted: 1948 (Effective in 1951) Core Rights Protected: Protection of national, ethnical, racial, or religious groups from actions intended to destroy them.

Year Adopted: 1979 (Effective in 1981) Core Rights Protected: Elimination of discrimination against women in all spheres of life including civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights.

Year Adopted: 1966 (Effective in 1976) Core Rights Protected: Right to work, right to fair wages, right to education, right to health, and right to an adequate standard of living.

Year Adopted: 2006 (Effective in 2010) Core Rights Protected: Prevents enforced disappearances, safeguards against secret detention, and ensures the right of families to know the fate of disappeared relatives.

Year Adopted: 2006 (Effective in 2008) Core Rights Protected: Rights of individuals with disabilities to live independently, to be included in the community, to personal mobility, to education, and to work and employment.

Year Adopted: 1989 (Effective in 1990) Core Rights Protected: Child's right to life, to be heard, to privacy, to education, and to be protected from discrimination and exploitation.

Year Adopted: 1984 (Effective in 1987) Core Rights Protected: Right to freedom from torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Year Adopted: 1948 Core Rights Protected: Right to life, liberty, personal security; recognition before the law; freedom from discrimination; freedom of thought, conscience, and religion.

Year Adopted: 1965 (Effective in 1969) Core Rights Protected: Right to freedom from discrimination based on race, color, descent, or national or ethnic origin.

Year Adopted: 1968 Core Rights Protected: Prevents war crimes and crimes against humanity from being subject to statutory limitations.

Year Adopted: 1949 Core Rights Protected: Protection of wounded and sick soldiers, shipwrecked sailors, prisoners of war, and civilians during war.