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Nepal is a party to twenty-one Human Right Instruments, namely:

International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination, 1965 30 January 1971 .
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966 on 14 May 1991
International Covenant on Economics, Social and Cultural Rights, 1966 on 14 May 1991
Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women, 1979 on 22 April 1991
International Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 1984 on 13 May 1991
Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989 on 14 September 1990
UN Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid, 1973 on 12 July 1977
UN Convention against Apartheid in Sports, 1985 on 1 March 1989
UN Convention for the Suppression of the Trafficking in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others, 1949 on 27 December 1995
Second Optional Protocol to the 1966 UN Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Aimed at Abolition of the Capital Punishment, 1989 on 4 June 1998
Slavery Convention, 1926 on 7 January 1963
Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, The Slave Trade and Institutions & Practices Similar to Slavery, 1956 on 7 January 1963
UN Convention on Political Rights of Women, 1952 on 20 April 1966
Protocol Amending the 1926 UN Slavery Convention, 1953 on 7 January 1963
UN Convention on the prevention & Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1948 on 27 January 1969
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant to the Civil and Political Rights, 1966 on 14 May 1991
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict, 2000 on 31 October 2005
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, 2000 on 31 October 2005
Optional Protocol to the Convention on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, 18 December 2006
SAARC Convention on Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Women and Children for Prostitution, 2002 on 31 October 2005
SAARC Convention on Regional Arrangements for the Promotion of Child Welfare in South Asia , 2002 on 31 October 2005
 
 
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