Making Women Matter by Hilkka Pietila and Jeanne Vickers, The Role of the United Nations, Zed Books Ltd., London and New Jersey, revised 1994

General Instruments

• Charter on the United Nations, 1945
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
• International Covenant of Economic Social and Cultural Rights, 1966
• International Covenant of civil and Political Rights and Optional Protocol, 1966
• Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, 1956
• International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination, 1965
• Declaration on Social Progress and Development, 1969
• World Population Plan of Action, 1974
• Program of Action on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order, 1974
• Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States, 1974
• International Development Strategy for the Third United Nations Development Decade, 1980
• International Development Strategy for the Fourth United Nations Development Decade, 1990

Instruments relating specifically to the status of women

• Convention for the Suppression of Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others, 1949
• Convention of the Political Rights of Women, 1952
• Convention on the Nationality of Married Women, 1957
• Convention and Recommendation on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages, 1962 and 1965
• Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, 1967
• Program of Concerted International Action for the Advancement of Women, 1970
• Declaration of Mexico: world Plan of Action, 1975
• Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women, 1979 (CEDAW)
• Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women, 1985
• Making Women Matter by Hilkka Pietila and Jeanne Vickers, The Role of the United Nations, Zed Books Ltd., London and New Jersey, revised 1994