Human rights : status of international instruments.

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Chapter I: International covenant on economic, social, and cultural rights. Chapter II: International covenant on civil and political rights. Chapter III: Optional protocol to the international covenant on civil and political rights. Chapter IV:International convention on the elimination of all forms of racism. Chapter V: International convention on the suppression and punishment on the crime of Apartheid. Chapter VI: International convention against Apartheid in sports. Chapter VII: Convention on the prevention of all forms of discrimination Chapter VIII: Convention on the prevention and punishment of Genocide. Chapter IX: Convention on the non-applicability of statutory limitations to war crimes and crimes against humanity. Chapter X: Slavery convention. Chapter XI: Protocol amending the slavery convention signed at Geneva on 25 September 1926. Chapter XII: Slavery convention as amended by the protocol. Chapter XIII: Supplementary convention on the abolition of slavery, the slave trade, and institutions and practices similar to slavery Chapter XIV: Convention for the suppression of the traffic in persons and of the exploitation of the prostitution of others. Chapter XV: Convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Chapter XVI: Convention on the nationality of married women. Chapter XVII: Convention on the reduction of statelessness. Chapter XVIII: Convention relating to the status of stateless persons. Chapter XIX: Convention relating to the status of refugees. Chapter XX: Protocol relating to the status of refugees. Chapter XXI: Convention on the political rights of women. Chapter XXII: convention on consent to marriage, minimum age for marriage and registration of marriages.