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International Instruments and other Documents

Here you may find some of the documents we recommend:

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INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS & DECLARATIONS

Berlin Declaration (on the 50th Anniversary of the European Union)

Constitution for Europe

EU's Reform Treaty & EU Constitution: A Comparative Text

Hammurabi's Code of Law

Humanist Renewal from the Center

Benedict XVI Address to the United Nations (April/2008)

Vision from the Vatican [an extract from Catholic Social Doctrine]

The Principles of Christian Social Doctrine

What is the Council of Europe?

ON HUMAN RIGHTS

HRW-Report. Russia. Events of 2007

HRW-Report. Cuba. Events of 2007

Access to Justice as a guarantee of economic, social & cultural rights (OAS, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.)

American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man (OAS)

The Bill of Rights
Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution of the United States of America
Background: Virginia Bill of Rights, 1776

Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

The state of the World's human rights (2006)

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (in all other languages click here)

US voter's Bill of Rights

Venezuela and Human Rights (by Carlos Sabino)

OTHER

The Role of Nongovernmental Organizations in Democracies - USINFO

2007 Index of Democracy - The Economist

A view from The Greens

An Anarchist Point of View

The Case for Direct Democracy

China & Tibet: challenge and opportunity - Dalai Lama (3/10/04)

Statement of His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the Forty-Eighth Anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day (3/10/07)

Consensus decision making

What is the purpose of the COUNCIL OF EUROPE?

Critical Challenges for Governance: A View from Nepal

Cuba after Castro: Legacies, challenges and impediments

Decentralization, local Government & citizen participation in Cuba

Democracy's Challenge

The Design of Direct Democracy

Direct Access Democracy

Direct Democracy "on the fringe" of ESF

The meaning of DISTRIBUTISM

Electoral College System: an opinion from the USA

Good Governance & the Judiciary - A View from Bangladesh

Implementing changes in Local Government

Letter to the Cuban People on Human Rights Day

Legislative Recalls: USA

Oldest Living Participatory Democracy on Earth

Participative Democracy: A Vision from Ireland

Participatory Democracy Concepts & Options

Participatory Democracy in Local Government

Participatory Democracy and the EU Constitution

Principle of Subsidiarity

The Meaning of Plebiscites, Referenda

Referendums and Plebiscites

Venezuela: Hugo Chavez's Revolution

World Elections