- Magna Carta
- English Bill of Rights
- Declaration of Independence
- The Virginia Declaration of Rights
- The Constitution of the United States of America
- Hague Convention I - Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes
- Hague Convention II - Convention with Respect to the Laws and Customs of War on Land
- The Covenant of the League of Nations - Peace Treaty of Versailles
- Charter of the United Nations
- London Agreement
- Charter of the International Military Tribunal
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
- Geneva Convention I
- Geneva Convention II
- Geneva Convention III
- Geneva Convention IV
- Protocol Additional to the Geneva Convention (Protocol I)
- Protocol Additional to the Geneva Convention (Protocol II)
- Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
- Convention on the Political Rights of Women
- Declaration of the Rights of the Child
- Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Slavery Convention
- International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Proclamation of Tehran
- Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity
- Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief
- International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid
- Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- Statute of the Inter-American Court on Human Rights
- Basic Principles on the Independence of the Judiciary
- First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Aiming at the Abolition of the Death Penalty
- International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
- International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
- Resolution of the General Assembly Creating the Position of High Commissioner for Human Rights
- House of Lords Pinochet Judgment of March 24, 1999