MULTILATERAL TREATY FRAMEWORK

• 1. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 9 December 1948

• 2. International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrmination, opened for signature at New York on 7 March 1966

• 3.International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 16 December 1966

• 4. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 16 December 1966

• 5. Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations onadopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 16 December 1966

• 6. Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the Abolition of the Death Penalty, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 15 December 1989

• 7. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 18 December 1979

• 8. Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 6 October 1999

• 9. Convention against Torture, and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 10 December 1984

• 10. Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 20 November 1989

• 11. Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on involvement of children in armed conflicts, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 25 May 2000

• 12. Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 25 May 2000

• 13. International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 18 December 1990

• 14. Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, signed at Geneva on 28 July 1951

• 15. Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 9 December 1994

• 16. International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorists Bombings, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 15 December 1997

• 17. Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, adopted at Rome on 17 July 1998

• 18. 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), concluded at Geneva on 10 October 1980

• 19. 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), adopted by the Conference of the State Parties to the 1980 Convention on 3 May 1996

• 20. Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 30 November 1992

• 21. Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 10 September 1996

• 22. Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, concluded at Oslo on 18 September 1997

• 23. Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, adopted at Kyoto on 11 December 1997

• 24. Convention on Biological Diversity, opened for signature at Rio de Janeiro on 5 June 1992

• 25. United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa, opened for signature at Paris on 14 October 1994