What are the main human rights documents?

There are certain national and international human rights documents that could be important for you.

Estonian

In Estonia, human rights have been included in the highest national law – our constitution. Chapter 2 of the Constitution contains many important human rights.  

In addition to the rights guaranteed by the Constitution, there are other laws that guarantee human rights, such as the Gender Equality Act, the Equal Treatment Act and the Personal Data Protection Act

There are also many other laws which are not human rights documents in themselves, but which protect different aspects of human rights. 

example The Criminal Procedure Law contains provisions guaranteeing human rights during a criminal trial. 

European & International

There are several important international human rights documents that Estonia has joined and therefore they are binding to it.

Some documents are general and contain a broad human rights catalogue. Those are the following:

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Last updated 26/07/2017