MULTILATERAL TREATY FRAMEWORK
CORE GROUP OF MULTILATERAL TREATIES
DEPOSITED WITH THE SECRETARY-GENERAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ORGANIZATION'S KEY
OBJECTIVES
HUMAN
RIGHTS
- 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
REFUGEES AND STATELESS PERSONS
- 14. Convention relating
to the Status of Refugees, signed at Geneva on 28 July 1951
PENAL MATTERS
- 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
DISARMAMENT
- 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
ENVIRONMENT
- 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