Issue: Human rights

This issue contains 4 sections.

Ratification of human rights conventions

The Netherlands has ratified a large number of international conventions on human rights. 

A selection of the international conventions the Netherlands has ratified

  • Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)
  • International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1966)
  • International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966)
  • International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)
  • Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979)
  • Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984)
  • Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)
  • Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006)
  • International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (2006)