At the regional level, the following human rights conventions have been adopted by the United Nations:
• the European Convention on Human Rights, 1950,
• the European Social Charter, 1961,
• the American Convention on Human Rights, 1969,
• the African Charter on Human Rights and Peoples’ Rights, 1981,
• the Revised Arab Charter on Human Rights, 2004.
The four Geneva Conventions, 1949; two additional Protocols to these Conventions, 1977; and the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, 1975 (the Helsinki Accords) also contain important provisions on human rights. The Asian Charter on Human Rights and Peoples’ Rights is not among the conventions listed.