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TREATY EVENT: FOCUS 2005 – RESPONDING TO GLOBAL CHALLENGES

List of 32 Multilateral Treaties Responding to Global Challenges
(For an up-to-date status of the treaties listed below, please refer to our web site at http://untreaty.un.org)
(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.)

For further information on the treaties listed below, including their summaries and participation status, click here


HUMAN RIGHTS

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 2002)*

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)

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, 13 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 Change3
(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);
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)


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