TREATY EVENT: FOCUS 2002 - SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
STATUS OF MULTILATERAL TREATIES RELATING TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Only treaties highlighted with an asterisk are still open for signature. All treaties are open for ratification, acceptance, approval and accession (in accordance with their provisions).
Status as at: 10 May 2002
Human Rights
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (New York, 16 December
1966). *
Entry into force: 23 March 1976
Status: Signatories 65 Parties 148
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (New York, 16 December 1966). *
Entry into force: 3 January 1976
Status: Signatories 64 Parties 145
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (New York, 18 December 1979). *
Entry into force: 3 September 1981
Status: Signatories 97 Parties 169
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (New York, 6 October 1999). *
Entry into force: 22 December 2000
Status: Signatories 74 Parties 36
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict (New York, 25 May 2000). *
Entry into force: 12 February 2002
Status: Signatories 109 Parties 30
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). *
Entry into force: 18 January 2002
Status: Signatories 103 Parties 29
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (New York, 18 December 1990). *
Not yet in force
Status: Signatories 16 Parties 19
Penal Matters
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
(New York, 15 November 2000). *
Not yet in force
Status: Signatories 141 Parties 11
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). *
Not yet in force
Status: Signatories 106 Parties 8
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). *
Not yet in force
Status: Signatories 101 Parties 8
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). *
Not yet in force
Status: Signatories 29 Parties 0
Ocean Affairs
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Montego Bay, 10 December 1982).
Entry into force: 16 November 1994
Status: Signatories 157 Parties 138
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).
Entry into force: 28 July 1996
Status: Signatories 79 Parties 104
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).
Entry into force: 11 December 2001
Status: Signatories 59 Parties 31
Environment
Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (Montreal, 16
September 1987) and Amendments (London, 29 June 1990 / Copenhagen, 25 November
1992 / Montreal, 17 September 1997 / Beijing, 3 December 1999)
Entry into force: 1 January 1989 (Montreal Protocol)
10 August 1992 (London Amendment)14 June 1994 (Copenhagen Amendment)
10 November 1999 (Montreal Amendment)
25 February 2002 (Beijing Amendment)
Status: Signatories 46 Parties 183 (Montreal Protocol)
Parties 163 (London Amendment)Parties 141 (Copenhagen Amendment)
Parties 79 (Montreal Amendment)
Parties 32 (Beijing Amendment)
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal (Basel, 22 March 1989) and Amendment (Geneva, 22 September 1995).
Entry into force: 5 May 1992 (Amendment not yet in force)
Status: Signatories 53 Parties 150
Parties 29 (Amendment)
Basel Protocol on Liability and Compensation for Damage Resulting from Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal (Basel, 10 December 1999).
Not yet in force
Status: Signatories 13 Parties 0
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (New York, 9 May 1992).
Entry into force: 21 March 1994
Status: Signatories 165 Parties 186
Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Kyoto, 11 December 1997).
Not yet in force
Status: Signatories 84 Parties 54
Convention on Biological Diversity (Rio de Janeiro, 5 June 1992).
Entry into force: 29 December 1993
Status: Signatories 168 Parties 183
Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity (Montreal, 29 January 2000).
Not yet in force
Status: Signatories 103 Parties 18
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa (Paris, 14 October 1994).
Entry into force: 26 December 1996
Status: Signatories 115 Parties 179
Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus, Denmark, 25 June 1998)
Entry into force: 30 October 2001
Status: Signatories 40 Parties 20
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade (Rotterdam, 10 September 1998).
Not yet in force
Status: Signatories 73 Parties 20
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (Stockholm, 22 May 2001). (Open for signature until 22 May 2002.)
Not yet in force
Status: Signatories 131 Parties 8