ANNEX 2 NON-EXCLUSIVE LIST OF INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTS RELEVANT TO NON-PARTISAN ELECTION OBSERVATION AND MONITORING BY CITIZEN ORGANIZATIONS Global Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966) International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1965) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979) Convention on the Political Rights of Women (1979) Convention Against Corruption (2003) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006) Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“Declaration on human rights defenders”; UN Doc: A/RES/53/144; 8 March 1999) General Comment 25: The right to participate in public affairs, voting rights and the right to equal access to public service (Art. 25), UN Human Rights Committee Re: Article 25 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (12 July 1996) UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, General Recommendation 23 on Political and Public Life (1997) Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement (UN Doc.E/CN.4/1998/53/Add.2) Declaration on Criteria for Free and Fair Elections of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (1994) Declaration of Principles for International Election Observation and Code of Conduct for International Election Observers (27 October 2005) Africa – Including AU, ECOWAS and SADC African Union African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (1981) Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (2003) 35