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Human Rights International Treaties

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Status of ratifications of International Treaties mentioned in the Millennium Declaration

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Human Rights International Treaties

1: International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), 1966. Entry into force: 3 January 1976.

2: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (CCPR), 1966. Entry into force: 23 March 1976.

3: International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD), 1965. Entry into force: 4 January 1969.

4: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), 1979. Entry into force: 3 September 1981.

5: Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT), 1984. Entry into force: 26 June 1987.

6: Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), 1989. Entry into force: 2 September 1990.

7: Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1948. Entry into force: 12 January 1951.

8: Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, 1951. Entry into force: 22 April 1954.

9: International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (MWC), 1990. Entry into force: 1 July 2003.

 

Treaties mentioned in the Millennium Declaration

A: Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. 1998 (Rome, Italy). Not yet in force.

B: Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction. 1997 (Oslo, Norway). Entry into force: 1
March 1999.

C: Protocol II on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices as amended on 3 May 1996 annexed to the Convention on Certain Conventional
Weapons. 1996 (Geneva, Switzerland). Entry into force: 3 December 1998.

D: Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. 1997 (Kyoto, Japan). Not yet in force.

E: Convention on the Rights of the Child. 1989 (New York, USA). Entry into force: 2
September 1990.

F: Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of
children in armed conflict. 2000 (New York, USA). Entry into force: 12 February 2002.

G: Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children,
child prostitution and child pornography. 2000 (New York, USA). Entry into force: 18
January 2002.

H: Convention on Biological Diversity. 1992 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Entry into force: 29
December 1993.

I: United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing
Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa. 1994 (Paris, France). Entry
into force: 26 December 1996.

J: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. 1979 (NewYork, USA). Entry into force: 3 September 1981.

 

Fundamental ILO Conventions

As of 18 December 2001

C87: Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948

C98: Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949

C100: Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951

C105: Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957

C111: Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958

C138: Minimum Age Convention, 1973

C182: Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999

 

 

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