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Firearms
Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (Palermo
Convention)
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EN
Protocol against the
Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms,
Their Parts and Components and Ammunition
New York - 31
May 2001
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EN
A/RES/63/23 Promoting
Development through the Reduction and Prevention of Armed Violence
Inter-American Convention against the Illicit Manufacturing
and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives and
Other Related Materials
Approved on November 13, 1997
Declaration of Bogota - on the functioning and application of the Inter-American
Convention against the Illicit Manufacturing of and
Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives and Other
Related Materials (CIFTA) - adopted on March 9, 2004
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Commitment of Tlatelolco
- Approved during the Conference of State Parties to the Inter-American
Convention against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms,
Ammunition, Explosives and Other Related Materials (CIFTA)
Mexico City, 21 February 2008
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Resolutions
of the OAS General Assembly on CIFTA
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Gangs
Resolution of the OAS General
Assembly AG/RES 2380 (XXXVIII-O/08)
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Resolution of the OAS
General Assembly AG/RES 2299 (XXXVII-O/07)
ES
EN
Resolution
of the OAS General Assembly AG/RES 2247 (XXXVI-O/06)
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EN
Resolution of
the OAS General Assembly AG/RES 2144 (XXXV-O/05)
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EN
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Illicit Smuggling of Migrants
Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by
Land, Sea and Air
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EN
International
Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers and their Families
New
York - 18 December 1990
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EN
International
Agreement for the Suppression of White Slave Traffic
Paris - 18
May1904
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Protocol to
the International Agreement for the Suppression of White Slave
Traffic
Paris - May 4, 1910
English Only
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Kidnappings and Forced
Disappearance
International
Convention
for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Dissapearance
New York - 20
December 2006
ES
EN
International Convention against the Taking of Hostages
New York - 1979
ES
EN
Organized Crime
Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (Palermo
Convention)
ES
EN
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and
Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children
ES
EN
Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by
Land, Sea and Air
ES
EN
Protocol against the Illicit
Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and
Components and Ammunition
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Prisons
Bilateral Agreements on Extradition,
Judicial / Legal Assistance, Control of Narcotic Drugs and Prisoner
Transfer by Country
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Only
Compedium of United
Nations Standards and Norms on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
ES EN
Standard Minimum
Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners
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EN
Body of Principles for the
Protection of all Persons under any Form of Detention or
Imprisonment
ES
EN
United Nations Rules for the Protection
of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty
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EN
United Nations Standard Minimum for Non-Custodial Measures (Tokyo
Rules)
EN
ES
United Nations
Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice (The
Beijing Rules)
EN
ES
United Nations Guidelines for
the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency (The Riyadh Guidelines)
EN
ES
OAS Resolutions related to the First Meeting of Authorities
Responsible for Penitentiary and Prison Policies:
Resolution of the OAS General Assembly AG/RES 1849
(XXXII-0/02)
Resolution of the OAS
Permanent Council CP/RS. 839
(1359/03)
OAS Resolutions related to the Second Meeting of Authorities
Responsible for Penitentiary and Prison Policies
Resolución de la
Asamblea General AG/RES 2266 (XXXVII-O/07);
Resolución de la Asamblea General
AG/RES 2369 (XXXVIII-O/08)
Recomendations adopted in the process of the
Meetings of Ministers of Justice or other Ministers, or
Attorneys General of the Americas -
REMJA
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Landmines
UN Convention on the
Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer
of Anti-Personel Mines and on their Destruction-Ottawa
Convention
1997
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EN
Resolutions of the OAS
General Assembly on Humanitarian Demining
Sexual Violence
A/RES/62/134
Eliminating Rape and other Forms of Sexual Violence in All Their
Manifestations, including in Conflict and Related Situations
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Trafficking
in Persons
Convention against Transnational
Organized Crime
New
York - 15 November 2000
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EN
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and
Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children
ES
EN
International
Agreement for the Suppression of White Slave Traffic
Paris - 18
May1904
English Only
Protocol to
the International Agreement for the Suppression of White Slave
Traffic
Paris - May 4, 1910
English Only
International
Convention for the Supression of the Traffic in Women and Children
Geneva - 30 September 1931
English Only
International
Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women of Full Age
Geneva
- 11 October 1933
English Only
Protocol
signed at Lake Success
New York - 12 November 1947
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Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
New York
- 18 December 1979
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EN
Amendment of
20 (1) of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women
New York - 22 December 1995
ES
EN
Optional
Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women
New York - 6 October 1999
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EN
Convention on the
Rights of the Child
New
York - 20 November 1989
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Amendment to
article 43 (2) of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
New
York - 12 December 1995
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EN
Optional
Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child relative
to the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict
New York -
25 May 2000
ES
EN
Optional
Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the
sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
New York - 25
May 2000
ES
EN
International
Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers and their Families
New
York - 18 December 1990
ES EN
Slavery Convention
Geneva
- 25 September 1926
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EN
Protocol to
Amend the Slavery Convention
New York - 7 December 1953
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EN
Guía Anotada del Protocolo Completo de las
Naciones Unidas Contra la Trata de
Personas - Ann Jordan, 2002
Legislative Guide for the
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in
Persons, Especially Women and Children
A/RES/63/156 Resolution
of the UN General Assembly on Trafficking
in Women and Girls
Resolutions of the OAS General Assembly on Trafficking in
Women
Documents of the OAS Permanent Council related to the Crime
of Trafficking in Persons
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Violence against Women
Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
New York
- 18 December 1979
ES
EN
Amendment of
20 (1) of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women
New York - 22 December 1995
ES
EN
Optional
Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women
New York - 6 October 1999
ES
EN
Declaration on the
Elimination of Violence against Women
(A/RES/48/104)
20 December 1993
EN
ES
A/RES/63/155 Intensification
of Efforts to Eliminate all Forms of Violence against Women
A/RES/62/133
Intensification of Efforts to Eliminate All Forms of Violence
against Women
A/RES/62/132
Violence against Migrant Workers
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Witness Protection
Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (Palermo
Convention)
ES
EN
US Attorney General Guidelines for Victim and Witness
Assistance
US
Department of Justice - May 2005
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Other
legal documents related to public security
International
Level:
United Nations Declaration on Crime and
Public Security
New York - 28 January 1997
English Only
Bilateral Agreements on Extradition,
Judicial / Legal Assistance, Control of Narcotic Drugs and Prisoner
Transfer by Country
English
Only
Compedium of United
Nations Standards and Norms on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
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Regional Level:
Charter of the Organization of American States
Declaration on Security in the Americas
2003
Commitment to Public Security in the Americas
2008
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