Summaries
and Status of the Core Group of Multilateral Treaties
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1. International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (New
York, 16 December 1966)
2. International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (New York, 16
December 1966)
3. Optional
Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights (New York, 16 December
1966)
4. Convention on
the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
(New York, 9 December 1948)
5. Convention
against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment (New York, 10 December 1984)
6. Optional
Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel,
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (New York, 18 December
2000)
7. International
Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All
Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (New York, 18 December
1990)
8. Optional
Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on
the involvement of children in armed conflict (New York, 25 May 2000)
9. Optional
Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on
the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography (New
York, 25 May
2000)
Refugees
10. Convention
Relating to the Status of Refugees (Geneva, 28 July
1951)
11. Protocol
Relating to the Status of Refugees (New York, 31 January
1967)
Penal Matters
12. Rome Statute
of the International Criminal Court (Rome, 17 July
1998)
13. Agreement on
the Privileges and Immunities of the International
Criminal Court (New York, 9 September 2002)
14. Convention
on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel
(New York, 9 December 1994)
Summaries and
Status as at 7 March 2005 of the Core Group of
Multilateral Treaties
Terrorism
15.
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings
(New York, 15 December 1997)
16.
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of
Terrorism (New York, 9 December 1999)
17.
International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear
Terrorism (New York, 18 April 2005)
Organized Crime
and Corruption
18. United
Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
(New York, 15 November 2000)
19. Protocol to
Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons,
Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations
Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime (New York, 15 November 2000)
20. Protocol
against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air,
supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational
Organized Crime (New
York, 15 November 2000)
21. Protocol
against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in
Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing the
United Nations
Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (New York, 31 May
2001)
22. United
Nations Convention against Corruption (New York, 31 October
2003)
Environment
23. Kyoto
Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change (Kyoto, 11 December 1997)
24. Rotterdam
Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for
Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade
(Rotterdam,
10 September 1998)
25. Stockholm
Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (Stockholm,
22 May 2001)
26. Cartagena
Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological
Diversity (Montreal, 29 January 2000)
Law of the Sea
27. United
Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Montego Bay, 10
December 1982) and Agreement relating to the implementation of Part XI
of the United
Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 (New York,
28 July
1994)
28. Agreement
for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United
Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating
to the Conservation
and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish
Stocks
(New York, 4 August 1995)
Disarmament
29.
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (New York, 10 September
1996)
30. Convention
on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production
and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction (Oslo, 18
September
1997)
Health
31. WHO
Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (Geneva, 21 May
2003)
Law of Treaties
32. Vienna
Convention on the Law of Treaties (Vienna, 23 May
1969)