International Conventions on Protection of Humanity and Environment (PDF)

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- A. Protection of Human Rights -- 1. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights -- 1 a. Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights -- 1 b. Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Aiming at the Abolition of the Death Penalty -- 2. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights -- 3. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide -- 4. International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination -- 5. International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid -- 6. Convention Concerning Forced or Compulsory Labour -- 7. Convention Concerning the Abolition of Forced Labour -- 8. Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment -- 9. Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children -- 10. Convention on the Political Rights of Women -- 11. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women -- 12. Convention on the Rights of the Child -- 13. Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees -- 13 a. Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees -- B. Protection of Humanity in Armed Conflicts -- 1. Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare -- 2. Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Conditi -- 3. Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War -- 4. Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea -- 5. Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War -- 6. Protocol Additional to the Geneva Convention of 12.8.1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I) -- 7. Protocol Additional to the Geneva Convention of 12.8.1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol II) -- 8. 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 -- 9. Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction -- C. Protection of Environment -- 1. Convention on Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter -- 1 a. Amendments to the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter concerning Settlement of Disputes -- 2. International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships -- 2 a. Protocol of 1978 Relating to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships -- 3. International Convention Relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Oil Pollution Casualities -- 4. Protocol Relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Pollution by Substances Other than Oil -- 5. International Convention on Oil Pollution, Preparedness, Response and Cooperation -- 6. International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling -- 7. Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources -- 8. Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Seals -- 9. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna -- 10. Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals -- 11. International Plant Protection Convention (Revised Text) -- 12. Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal -- 13. Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer -- 14. Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer -- 14 a. Adjustments to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer -- 14 b. Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer -- 15. Convention on