International documents and principles on elections

Universal Instruments

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (10 December 1948)

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) (16 December 1966)

International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (21 December 1965)

Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (18 December 1979)

Convention on the Political Rights of Women (20 December 1952)

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (13 December 2006)

Regional Instruments

Document of the Copenhagen meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension of the CSCE (29 June 1990)

Convention on the Standards for Democratic Elections, Electoral Rights and Freedoms in the Member States of the Commonwealth of Independent States (7 October 2002)

European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) “Code of Good Practice in Electoral Matters” (18-19 October 2002)