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Title | Date added | Template | Original document | Paragraph text | Body | Document type | Thematics | Topic(s) | Person(s) affected | Year |
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Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention 2014, para. Preamble 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling the obligation of Members that have ratified the Convention to make forced or compulsory labour punishable as a penal offence, and to ensure that the penalties imposed by law are really adequate and are strictly enforced, and | International Labour Organization | International treaty |
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Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention 2014, para. Preamble 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing that the context and forms of forced or compulsory labour have changed and trafficking in persons for the purposes of forced or compulsory labour, which may involve sexual exploitation, is the subject of growing international concern and requires urgent action for its effective elimination, and | International Labour Organization | International treaty |
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Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention 2014, para. 4. (1) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 1. Each Member shall ensure that all victims of forced or compulsory labour, irrespective of their presence or legal status in the national territory, have access to appropriate and effective remedies, such as compensation. | International Labour Organization | International treaty |
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Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention 2014, para. 4. (2) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 2. Each Member shall, in accordance with the basic principles of its legal system, take the necessary measures to ensure that competent authorities are entitled not to prosecute or impose penalties on victims of forced or compulsory labour for their involvement in unlawful activities which they have been compelled to commit as a direct consequence of being subjected to forced or compulsory labour. | International Labour Organization | International treaty |
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Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention 2014, para. Preamble 10 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Noting that the effective and sustained suppression of forced or compulsory labour contributes to ensuring fair competition among employers as well as protection for workers, and | International Labour Organization | International treaty |
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Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention 2014, para. 1. (1) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 1. In giving effect to its obligations under the Convention to suppress forced or compulsory labour, each Member shall take effective measures to prevent and eliminate its use, to provide to victims protection and access to appropriate and effective remedies, such as compensation, and to sanction the perpetrators of forced or compulsory labour. | International Labour Organization | International treaty |
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The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The settlement of international disputes by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered in accordance with Article 2 (3) of the Charter of the United Nations; | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. e | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming the sovereign right of any State to regulate and control conventional arms exclusively within its territory, pursuant to its own legal or constitutional system, | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The States Parties shall make every effort to achieve consensus on each amendment. If all efforts at consensus have been exhausted, and no agreement reached, the amendment shall, as a last resort, be adopted by a three-quarters majority vote of the States Parties present and voting at the meeting of the Conference of States Parties. For the purposes of this Article, States Parties present and voting means States Parties present and casting an affirmative or negative vote. The Depositary shall communicate any adopted amendment to all States Parties. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. k | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing also the challenges faced by victims of armed conflict and their need for adequate care, rehabilitation and social and economic inclusion, | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Each State Party shall, in exercising its national sovereignty, have the right to withdraw from this Treaty. It shall give notification of such withdrawal to the Depositary, which shall notify all other States Parties. The notification of withdrawal may include an explanation of the reasons for its withdrawal. The notice of withdrawal shall take effect ninety days after the receipt of the notification of withdrawal by the Depositary, unless the notification of withdrawal specifies a later date. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. h | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Noting the contribution made by the United Nations Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, as well as the Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, and the International Instrument to Enable States to Identify and Trace, in a Timely and Reliable Manner, Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons, | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The inherent right of all States to individual or collective self-defence as recognized in Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations; | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The respect for the legitimate interests of States to acquire conventional arms to exercise their right to self-defence and for peacekeeping operations; and to produce, export, import and transfer conventional arms; | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Respecting and ensuring respect for international humanitarian law in accordance with, inter alia, the Geneva Conventions of 1949, and respecting and ensuring respect for human rights in accordance with, inter alia, the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Refraining in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any State, or in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations in accordance with Article 2 (4) of the Charter of the United Nations; | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. m | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Mindful of the legitimate trade and lawful ownership, and use of certain conventional arms for recreational, cultural, historical, and sporting activities, where such trade, ownership and use are permitted or protected by law, | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | A State Party may withdraw its reservation at any time by notification to this effect addressed to the Depositary. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | States Parties shall consult and, by mutual consent, cooperate to pursue settlement of any dispute that may arise between them with regard to the interpretation or application of this Treaty including through negotiations, mediation, conciliation, judicial settlement or other peaceful means. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 2. These authorities shall take their decision in the same manner as in the case of any ordinary offence of a serious nature under the law of that State Party. In the cases referred to in article 9, paragraph 2, the standards of evidence required for prosecution and conviction shall in no way be less stringent than those which apply in the cases referred to in article 9, paragraph 1. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 6. Extradition shall, in all cases, be subject to the conditions provided for by the law of the requested State Party or by applicable extradition treaties, including, in particular, conditions relating to the minimum penalty requirement for extradition and the grounds upon which the requested State Party may refuse extradition or make it subject to certain conditions. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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CRPD - Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2006, para. b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | (b) Recognizing that the United Nations, in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the International Covenants on Human Rights, has proclaimed and agreed that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth therein, without distinction of any kind, | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 4. Each State Party shall ensure in its legal system that the victims of enforced disappearance have the right to obtain reparation and prompt, fair and adequate compensation. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Considering the obligation of States under the Charter of the United Nations to promote universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms, | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Also recalling the Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in its resolution 47/133 of 18 December 1992 , | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 2. Before an observation on a State Party is published in the annual report, the State Party concerned shall be informed in advance and shall be given reasonable time to answer. This State Party may request the publication of its comments or observations in the report. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 2. Any amendment adopted by a majority of two thirds of the States Parties present and voting at the conference shall be submitted by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to all the States Parties for acceptance. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. 3g | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [3. Each State Party shall assure the compilation and maintenance of one or more up-to-date official registers and/or records of persons deprived of liberty, which shall be made promptly available, upon request, to any judicial or other competent authority or institution authorized for that purpose by the law of the State Party concerned or any relevant international legal instrument to which the State concerned is a party. The information contained therein shall include, as a minimum:] (g) In the event of death during the deprivation of liberty, the circumstances and cause of death and the destination of the remains; | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. 3h | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [3. Each State Party shall assure the compilation and maintenance of one or more up-to-date official registers and/or records of persons deprived of liberty, which shall be made promptly available, upon request, to any judicial or other competent authority or institution authorized for that purpose by the law of the State Party concerned or any relevant international legal instrument to which the State concerned is a party. The information contained therein shall include, as a minimum:] (h) The date and time of release or transfer to another place of detention, the destination and the authority responsible for the transfer. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 1. A State Party may at the time of ratification of this Convention or at any time afterwards declare that it recognizes the competence of the Committee to receive and consider communications from or on behalf of individuals subject to its jurisdiction claiming to be victims of a violation by this State Party of provisions of this Convention. The Committee shall not admit any communication concerning a State Party which has not made such a declaration. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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