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Convention relating to the Status of Refugees
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Document type
- International treaty
- Year
- 1951
Document
Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Document type
- International treaty
- Year
- 1961
Document
ICERD - International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Document type
- International treaty
- Year
- 1965
Document
ICCPR - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Document type
- International treaty
- Year
- 1966
Document
ICESCR - International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Document type
- International treaty
- Year
- 1966
Document
CEDAW - Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Document type
- International treaty
- Year
- 1979
Document
CAT - Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Document type
- International treaty
- Year
- 1984
Document
CRC - Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Document type
- International treaty
- Year
- 1989
Document
ICCPR - OPII - Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Document type
- International treaty
- Year
- 1989
Document
ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Document type
- International treaty
- Year
- 1990
Document
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the UN Convention against Transnational Crime
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Document type
- International treaty
- Year
- 2000
Document
CRC - OPAC - Optional Protocol to the CRC on the involvement of children in armed conflict
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Document type
- International treaty
- Year
- 2000
Document
CRC - OPSC - Optional Protocol to the CRC on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Document type
- International treaty
- Year
- 2000
Document
CRPD - Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Document type
- International treaty
- Year
- 2006
Document
ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Document type
- International treaty
- Year
- 2006
Document
The Arms Trade Treaty
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Document type
- International treaty
- Year
- 2013
Document
Convention relating to the Status of Refugees 1951, para. 1
- Paragraph text
- 1. This Convention shall come into force on the ninetieth day following the day of deposit of the sixth instrument of ratification or accession.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1951
- Year
- Item does not have this property
Paragraph
Convention relating to the Status of Refugees 1951, para. 1
- Paragraph text
- 1. Any Contracting State may request revision of this Convention at any time by a notification addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1951
- Year
- Item does not have this property
Paragraph
Convention relating to the Status of Refugees 1951, para. undefined
- Paragraph text
- The Contracting States shall apply the provisions of this Convention to refugees without discrimination as to race, religion or country of origin.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1951
- Year
- Item does not have this property
Paragraph
Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness 1961, para. 2b
- Paragraph text
- 2. This Convention shall be open for signature on behalf of: (b) Any other State invited to attend the United Nations Conference on the Elimination or Reduction of Future Statelessness;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 1961
- Year
- Item does not have this property
Paragraph
Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness 1961, para. 3a (i)
- Paragraph text
- 3. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1 of this article, a Contracting State may retain the right to deprive a person of his nationality, if at the time of signature, ratification or accession it specifies its retention of such right on one or more of the following grounds, being grounds existing in its national law at that time: (a) That, inconsistently with his duty of loyalty to the Contracting State, the person: (i) Has, in disregard of an express prohibition by the Contracting State rendered or continued to render services to, or received or continued to receive emoluments from, another State, or
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 1961
- Year
- Item does not have this property
Paragraph
Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness 1961, para. 2a
- Paragraph text
- 2. A Contracting State may make the grant of its nationality in accordance with subparagraph (b) of paragraph 1 of this article subject to one or more of the following conditions: (a) That the application is lodged during a period, fixed by the Contracting State, beginning not later than at the age of eighteen years and ending not earlier than at the age of twenty-one years, so, however, that the person concerned shall be allowed at least one year during which he may himself make the application without having to obtain legal authorization to do so;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Year
- 1961
- Year
- Item does not have this property
Paragraph
Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness 1961, para. 4
- Paragraph text
- 4. A Contracting State shall grant its nationality to a person who would otherwise be stateless and who is unable to acquire the nationality of the Contracting State in whose territory he was born because he has passed the age for lodging his application or has not fulfilled the required residence conditions, if the nationality of one of his parents at the time of the person's birth was that of the Contracting State first above-mentioned. If his parents did not possess the same nationality at the time of his birth, the question whether the nationality of the person concerned should follow that of the father or that of the mother shall be determined by the national law of such Contracting State. If application for such nationality is required, the application shall be made to the appropriate authority by or on behalf of the applicant in the manner prescribed by the national law. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 5 of this article, such application shall not be refused.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Year
- 1961
- Year
- Item does not have this property
Paragraph
Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness 1961, para. 5
- Paragraph text
- 5. The Contracting State may make the grant of its nationality in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 4 of this article subject to one or more of the following conditions: (a) That the application is lodged before the applicant reaches an age, being not less than twenty-three years, fixed by the Contracting State; (b) That the person concerned has habitually resided in the territory of the Contracting State for such period immediately preceding the lodging of the application, not exceeding three years, as may be fixed by that State; (c) That the person concerned has always been stateless.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 1961
- Year
- Item does not have this property
Paragraph
Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness 1961, para. 2
- Paragraph text
- 2. No other reservations to this Convention shall be admissible.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 1961
- Year
- Item does not have this property
Paragraph
ICERD - International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 1965, para. b
- Paragraph text
- [In compliance with the fundamental obligations laid down in article 2 of this Convention, States Parties undertake to prohibit and to eliminate racial discrimination in all its forms and to guarantee the right of everyone, without distinction as to race, colour, or national or ethnic origin, to equality before the law, notably in the enjoyment of the following rights:] (b) The right to security of person and protection by the State against violence or bodily harm, whether inflicted by government officials or by any individual group or institution;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1965
- Year
- Item does not have this property
Paragraph
ICERD - International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 1965, para. c
- Paragraph text
- [In compliance with the fundamental obligations laid down in article 2 of this Convention, States Parties undertake to prohibit and to eliminate racial discrimination in all its forms and to guarantee the right of everyone, without distinction as to race, colour, or national or ethnic origin, to equality before the law, notably in the enjoyment of the following rights:] (c) Political rights, in particular the right to participate in elections-to vote and to stand for election-on the basis of universal and equal suffrage, to take part in the Government as well as in the conduct of public affairs at any level and to have equal access to public service;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1965
- Year
- Item does not have this property
Paragraph
ICERD - International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 1965, para. d (i)
- Paragraph text
- [In compliance with the fundamental obligations laid down in article 2 of this Convention, States Parties undertake to prohibit and to eliminate racial discrimination in all its forms and to guarantee the right of everyone, without distinction as to race, colour, or national or ethnic origin, to equality before the law, notably in the enjoyment of the following rights:] (d) Other civil rights, in particular: (i) The right to freedom of movement and residence within the border of the State;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1965
- Year
- Item does not have this property
Paragraph
ICERD - International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 1965, para. 1e
- Paragraph text
- 1. States Parties condemn racial discrimination and undertake to pursue by all appropriate means and without delay a policy of eliminating racial discrimination in all its forms and promoting understanding among all races, and, to this end: (e) Each State Party undertakes to encourage, where appropriate, integrationist multiracial organizations and movements and other means of eliminating barriers between races, and to discourage anything which tends to strengthen racial division.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1965
- Year
- Item does not have this property
Paragraph
ICERD - International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 1965, para. 2
- Paragraph text
- 2. States Parties shall, when the circumstances so warrant, take, in the social, economic, cultural and other fields, special and concrete measures to ensure the adequate development and protection of certain racial groups or individuals belonging to them, for the purpose of guaranteeing them the full and equal enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms. These measures shall in no case entail as a consequence the maintenance of unequal or separate rights for different racial groups after the objectives for which they were taken have been achieved.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Year
- 1965
- Year
- Item does not have this property
Paragraph