1945 — 1998

Legal references

The primary legal texts against which every analysis on this platform is measured. Each entry links to the official full text. United Nations treaties are authoritative in six languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish); where no official version exists in this page's language, the link points to the English text — the official pages still include a language selector.

Charter of the United Nations · 1945
Official text → un.org
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), Article V — Freedom of Transit · 1947
Official text → WTO
Universal Declaration of Human Rights · 1948
Official text → un.org
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide · 1948
Official text → OHCHR
Fourth Geneva Convention (1949) and Additional Protocols (1977) · 1949
Official text → ICRC
Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (1951) and 1967 Protocol · 1951
Official text → OHCHR
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights · 1966
Official text → OHCHR (EN)
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT) · 1984
Official text → OHCHR
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT) · 1984
Official text → OHCHR
Convention on the Rights of the Child · 1989
Official text → OHCHR
Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict · 2000
Official text → OHCHR
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women · 1979
Official text → OHCHR
UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), Part III — Transit Passage · 1982
Official text → un.org
Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women (DEVAW) · 1993
Official text → OHCHR
Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women (Belém do Pará Convention) · 1994
Official text → OAS
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol) · 2003
Official text → ACHPR
International Court of Justice — Nicaragua v. United States of America (Military and Paramilitary Activities) · 1986
Official text → ICJ-CIJ
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court · 1998
Official text → OHCHR

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