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Ombudsman International is empowered by the treaties and covenants collectively known as the International Bill of Human Rights. The International Court of Justice regularly invokes the principles contained in those treaties and covenants in their decisions. Those same principles have also found their way into decisions made by national and local tribunals. They have become a new Magna Carta, marking mankind’s conscious acquisition of human dignity and worth.

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• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

• Convention on the Rights of the Child

• Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

• Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights