International Human Rights Instruments to which Trinidad and Tobago is a party
There exists a panoply of international instruments which enunciate innumerable legal principles aimed at protecting human rights to which Trinidad and Tobago has acceded.
Among these are:
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
- International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1965)
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966);
- United Nations Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (1979)
- United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989).
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