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The Secretary-General's Letter to Heads of State and Government
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Foreword
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Procedural Information
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Introduction
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Core
Group of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General Representative
of the Organization's Key objectives
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List
of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General
Summaries of Treaties
HUMAN RIGHTS
- Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
- International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrmination.
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
- Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
- Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
- Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
- Convention against Torture, and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
- Convention on the Rights of the Child.
- Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on involvement of children in armed conflicts.
- Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.
- International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families.
REFUGEES AND STATELESS PERSONS
- Convention relating to the Status of Refugees.
PENAL MATTERS
- Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel.
- International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorists Bombings.
- Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
DISARMAMENT
- Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects (and Protocols).
- Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices as amended on 3 May 1996 (with amended Protocol II).
- Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction.
- Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.
- Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction.
ENVIRONMENT
- Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
- Convention on Biological Diversity.
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa.
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