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Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea 1949, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art 3. In the case of armed conflict not of an international character occurring in the territory of one of the High Contracting Parties, each Party to the conflict shall be bound to apply, as a minimum, the following provisions: (2) The wounded, sick and shipwrecked shall be collected and cared for. An impartial humanitarian body, such as the International Committee of the Red Cross, may offer its services to the Parties to the conflict. The Parties to the conflict should further endeavour to bring into force, by means of special agreements, all or part of the other provisions of the present Convention. The application of the preceding provisions shall not affect the legal status of the Parties to the conflict. |
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Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art 18. After each engagement, Parties to the conflict shall, without delay, take all possible measures to search for and collect the shipwrecked, wounded and sick, to protect them against pillage and ill-treatment, to ensure their adequate care, and to search for the dead and prevent their being despoiled. Whenever circumstances permit, the Parties to the conflict shall conclude local arrangements for the removal of the wounded and sick by sea from a besieged or encircled area and for the passage of medical and religious personnel and equipment on their way to that area. |
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Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art 20. Parties to the conflict shall ensure that burial at sea of the dead, carried out individually as far as circumstances permit, is preceded by a careful examination, if possible by a medical examination, of the bodies, with a view to confirming death, establishing identity and enabling a report to be made. Where a double identity disc is used, one half of the disc should remain on the body. If dead persons are landed, the provisions of the Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field of August 12, 1949 shall be applicable. |
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Convention relating to the Status of Refugees 1951, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | 1. This Convention shall come into force on the ninetieth day following the day of deposit of the sixth instrument of ratification or accession. |
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Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art 43. The ships designated in Articles 22, 24, 25 and 27 shall be distinctively marked as follows: (a) All exterior surfaces shall be white. (b) One or more dark red crosses, as large as possible, shall be painted and displayed on each side of the hull and on the horizontal surfaces, so placed as to afford the greatest possible visibility from the sea and from the air.
All hospital ships shall make themselves known by hoisting their national flag and further, if they belong to a neutral state, the flag of the Party to the conflict whose direction they have accepted. A white flag with a red cross shall be flown at the mainmast as high as possible. Lifeboats of hospital ships, coastal lifeboats and au small craft used by the Medical Service shall be painted white with dark red crosses prominently displayed and shall, in general, comply with the identification system prescribed above for hospital ships. The above-mentioned ships and craft, which may wish to ensure by night and in times of reduced visibility the protection to which they are entitled, must, subject to the assent of the Party to the conflict under whose power they are, take the necessary measures to render their painting and distinctive emblems sufficiently apparent. Hospital ships which, in accordance with Article 31, are provisionally detained by the enemy, must haul down the flag of the Party to the conflict in whose service they are or whose direction they have accepted. Coastal lifeboats, if they continue to operate with the consent of the Occupying Power from a base which is occupied, may be allowed, when away from their base, to continue to fly their own national colours along with a flag carrying a red cross on a white ground, subject to prior notification to all the Parties to the conflict concerned. All the provisions in this Article relating to the red cross shall apply equally to the other emblems mentioned in Article 41. Parties to the conflict shall at all times endeavour to conclude mutual agreements in order to use the most modern methods available to facilitate the identification of hospital ships. |
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Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art 48. The High Contracting Parties undertake, in time of peace as in time of war, to disseminate the text of the present Convention as widely as possible in their respective countries, and, in particular, to include the study thereof in their programmes of military and, if possible, civil instruction, so that the principles thereof may become known to the entire population, in particular to the armed fighting forces, the medical personnel and the chaplains. |
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Convention relating to the Status of Refugees 1951, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | 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. |
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Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art 34. The protection to which hospital ships and sick-bays are entitled shall not cease unless they are used to commit, outside their humanitarian duties, acts harmful to the enemy. Protection may, however, cease only after due warning has been given, naming in all appropriate cases a reasonable time limit, and after such warning has remained unheeded. In particular, hospital ships may not possess or use a secret code for their wireless or other means of communication. |
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Equal Remuneration Convention 1951, para. 2. (2) (b) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Labour Organization | Legally binding | International treaty | [The principle of equal remuneration for men and women workers for work of equal value] may be applied by means of] (b) legally established or recognised machinery for wage determination; |
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Equal Remuneration Convention 1951, para. 2. (2) (a) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Labour Organization | Legally binding | International treaty | [The principle of equal remuneration for men and women workers for work of equal value] may be applied by means of] (a) national laws or regulations; |
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Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea 1949, para. 2 (d) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art 13. The present Convention shall apply to the wounded, sick and shipwrecked at sea belonging to the following categories: (2) Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, belonging to a Party to the conflict and operating in or outside their own territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided that such militias or volunteer corps, including such organized resistance movements, fulfil the following conditions: (d) that of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war. |
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Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea 1949, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art 13. The present Convention shall apply to the wounded, sick and shipwrecked at sea belonging to the following categories: (4) Persons who accompany the armed forces without actually being members thereof, such as civilian members of military aircraft crews, war correspondents, supply contractors, members of labour units or of services responsible for the welfare of the armed forces, provided that they have received authorization from the armed forces which they accompany. |
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African Youth Charter 2006, para. 2i | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 2. States Parties shall undertake to pursue the full implementation of this right and in particular shall take measures to: i) Institute comprehensive programmes including legislative steps to prevent unsafe abortions; |
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Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art 2. In addition to the provisions which shall be implemented in peace time, the present Convention shall apply to all cases of declared war or of any other armed conflict which may arise between two or more of the High Contracting Parties, even if the state of war is not recognized by one of them. The Convention shall also apply to all cases of partial or total occupation of the territory of a High Contracting Party, even if the said occupation meets with no armed resistance. Although one of the Powers in conflict may not be a party to the present Convention, the Powers who are parties thereto shall remain bound by it in their mutual relations. They shall furthermore be bound by the Convention in relation to the said Power, if the latter accepts and applies the provisions thereof. |
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Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art 16. Taking into consideration the provisions of the present Convention relating to rank and sex, and subject to any privileged treatment which may be accorded to them by reason of their state of health, age or professional qualifications, all prisoners of war shall be treated alike by the Detaining Power, without any adverse distinction based on race, nationality, religious belief or political opinions, or any other distinction founded on similar criteria. |
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Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art 55. The fitness of prisoners of war for work shall be periodically verified by medical examinations at least once a month. The examinations shall have particular regard to the nature of the work which prisoners of war are required to do. If any prisoner of war considers himself incapable of working, he shall be permitted to appear before the medical authorities of his camp. Physicians or surgeons may recommend that the prisoners who are, in their opinion, unfit for work, be exempted therefrom. |
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Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art 56. The organization and administration of labour detachments shall be similar to those of prisoner of war camps. Every labour detachment shall remain under the control of and administratively part of a prisoner of war camp. The military authorities and the commander of the said camp shall be responsible, under the direction of their government, for the observance of the provisions of the present Convention in labour detachments. The camp commander shall keep an up-to-date record of the labour detachments dependent on his camp, and shall communicate it to the delegates of the Protecting Power, of the International Committee of the Red Cross, or of other agencies giving relief to prisoners of war, who may visit the camp. |
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Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art 57. The treatment of prisoners of war who work for private persons, even if the latter are responsible for guarding and protecting them, shall not be inferior to that which is provided for by the present Convention. The Detaining Power, the military authorities and the commander of the camp to which such prisoners belong shall be entirely responsible for the maintenance, care, treatment, and payment of the working pay of such prisoners of war. Such prisoners of war shall have the right to remain in communication with the prisoners' representatives in the camps on which they depend. |
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Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art 58. Upon the outbreak of hostilities, and pending an arrangement on this matter with the Protecting Power, the Detaining Power may determine the maximum amount of money in cash or in any similar form, that prisoners may have in their possession. Any amount in excess, which was properly in their possession and which has been taken or withheld from them, shall be placed to their account, together with any monies deposited by them, and shall not be converted into any other currency without their consent. If prisoners of war are permitted to purchase services or commodities outside the camp against payment in cash, such payments shall be made by the prisoner himself or by the camp administration who will charge them to the accounts of the prisoners concerned. The Detaining Power will establish the necessary rules in this respect. |
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Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War 1949, para. A.2 (c) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art 4. A. Prisoners of war, in the sense of the present Convention, are persons belonging to one of the following categories, who have fallen into the power of the enemy: (2) Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, belonging to a Party to the conflict and operating in or outside their own territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided that such militias or volunteer corps, including such organized resistance movements, fulfil the following conditions: (c) that of carrying arms openly; |
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Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art 20. The evacuation of prisoners of war shall always be effected humanely and in conditions similar to those for the forces of the Detaining Power in their changes of station. The Detaining Power shall supply prisoners of war who are being evacuated with sufficient food and potable water, and with the necessary clothing and medical attention. The Detaining Power shall take all suitable precautions to ensure their safety during evacuation, and shall establish as soon as possible a list of the prisoners of war who are evacuated. If prisoners of war must, during evacuation, pass through transit camps, their stay in such camps shall be as brief as possible. |
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Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art 62. Prisoners of war shall be paid a fair working rate of pay by the detaining authorities direct. The rate shall be fixed by the said authorities, but shall at no time be less than one-fourth of one Swiss franc for a full working day. The Detaining Power shall inform prisoners of war, as well as the Power on which they depend, through the intermediary of the Protecting Power, of the rate of daily working pay that it has fixed. Working pay shall likewise be paid by the detaining authorities to prisoners of war permanently detailed to duties or to a skilled or semi-skilled occupation in connection with the administration, installation or maintenance of camps, and to the prisoners who are required to carry out spiritual or medical duties on behalf of their comrades. The working pay of the prisoners' representative, of his advisers, if any, and of his assistants, shall be paid out of the fund maintained by canteen profits. The scale of this working pay shall be fixed by the prisoners' representative and approved by the camp commander. If there is no such fund, the detaining authorities shall pay these prisoners a fair working rate of pay. |
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Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art 65. Every item entered in the account of a prisoner of war shall be countersigned or initialled by him, or by the prisoners' representative acting on his behalf. Prisoners of war shall at all times be afforded reasonable facilities for consulting and obtaining copies of their accounts, which may likewise be inspected by the representatives of the Protecting Powers at the time of visits to the camp. When prisoners of war are transferred from one camp to another, their personal accounts will follow them. In case of transfer from one Detaining Power to another, the monies which are their property and are not in the currency of the Detaining Power will follow them. They shall be given certificates for any other monies standing to the credit of their accounts. The Parties to the conflict concerned may agree to notify to each other at specific intervals through the Protecting Power, the amount of the accounts of the prisoners of war. |
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Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art 51. Prisoners of war must be granted suitable working conditions, especially as regards accommodation, food, clothing and equipment; such conditions shall not be inferior to those enjoyed by nationals of the Detaining Power employed in similar work; account shall also be taken of climatic conditions. The Detaining Power, in utilizing the labour of prisoners of war, shall ensure that in areas in which such prisoners are employed, the national legislation concerning the protection of labour, and, more particularly, the regulations for the safety of workers, are duly applied. Prisoners of war shall receive training and be provided with the means of protection suitable to the work they will have to do and similar to those accorded to the nationals of the Detaining Power. Subject to the provisions of Article 52, prisoners may be submitted to the normal risks run by these civilian workers. Conditions of labour shall in no case be rendered more arduous by disciplinary measures. |
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Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art 75. Should military operations prevent the Powers concerned from fulfilling their obligation to assure the transport of the shipments referred to in Articles 70, 71, 72 and 77, the Protecting Powers concerned, the International Committee of the Red Cross or any other organization duly approved by the Parties to the conflict may undertake to ensure the conveyance of such shipments by suitable means (railway wagons, motor vehicles, vessels or aircraft, etc.). For this purpose, the High Contracting Parties shall endeavour to supply them with such transport and to allow its circulation, especially by granting the necessary safe-conducts. Such transport may also be used to convey: (a) correspondence, lists and reports exchanged between the Central Information Agency referred to in Article 123 and the National Bureaux referred to in Article 122; (b) correspondence and reports relating to prisoners of war which the Protecting Powers, the International Committee of the Red Cross or any other body assisting the prisoners, exchange either with their own delegates or with the Parties to the conflict.
These provisions in no way detract from the right of any Party to the conflict to arrange other means of transport, if it should so prefer, nor preclude the granting of safe-conducts, under mutually agreed conditions, to such means of transport. In the absence of special agreements, the costs occasioned by the use of such means of transport shall be borne proportionally by the Parties to the conflict whose nationals are benefited thereby. |
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Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art 76. The censoring of correspondence addressed to prisoners of war or despatched by them shall be done as quickly as possible. Mail shall be censored only by the despatching State and the receiving State, and once only by each. The examination of consignments intended for prisoners of war shall not be carried out under conditions that will expose the goods contained in them to deterioration; except in the case of written or printed matter, it shall be done in the presence of the addressee, or of a fellow-prisoner duly delegated by him. The delivery to prisoners of individual or collective consignments shall not be delayed under the pretext of difficulties of censorship. Any prohibition of correspondence ordered by Parties to the conflict, either for military or political reasons, shall be only temporary and its duration shall be as short as possible. |
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Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art 86. No prisoner of war may be punished more than once for the same act or on the same charge. |
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Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art 23. No prisoner of war may at any time be sent to, or detained in areas where he may be exposed to the fire of the combat zone, nor may his presence be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations. Prisoners of war shall have shelters against air bombardment and other hazards of war, to the same extent as the local civilian population. With the exception of those engaged in the protection of their quarters against the aforesaid hazards, they may enter such shelters as soon as possible after the giving of the alarm. Any other protective measure taken in favour of the population shall also apply to them. Detaining Powers shall give the Powers concerned, through the intermediary of the Protecting Powers, all useful information regarding the geographical location of prisoner of war camps. Whenever military considerations permit, prisoner of war camps shall be indicated in the day-time by the letters PW or PG, placed so as to be clearly visible from the air. The Powers concerned may, however, agree upon any other system of marking. Only prisoner of war camps shall be marked as such. |
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Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art 79. In all places where there are prisoners of war, except in those where there are officers, the prisoners shall freely elect by secret ballot, every six months, and also in case of vacancies, prisoners' representatives entrusted with representing them before the military authorities, the Protecting Powers, the International Committee of the Red Cross and any other organization which may assist them. These prisoners' representatives shall be eligible for re-election. In camps for officers and persons of equivalent status or in mixed camps, the senior officer among the prisoners of war shall be recognized as the camp prisoners' representative. In camps for officers, he shall be assisted by one or more advisers chosen by the officers; in mixed camps, his assistants shall be chosen from among the prisoners of war who are not officers and shall be elected by them. Officer prisoners of war of the same nationality shall be stationed in labour camps for prisoners of war, for the purpose of carrying out the camp administration duties for which the prisoners of war are responsible. These officers may be elected as prisoners' representatives under the first paragraph of this Article. In such a case the assistants to the prisoners' representatives shall be chosen from among those prisoners of war who are not officers. Every representative elected must be approved by the Detaining Power before he has the right to commence his duties. Where the Detaining Power refuses to approve a prisoner of war elected by his fellow prisoners of war, it must inform the Protecting Power of the reason for such refusal. In all cases the prisoners' representative must have the same nationality, language and customs as the prisoners of war whom he represents. Thus, prisoners of war distributed in different sections of a camp, according to their nationality, language or customs, shall have for each section their own prisoners' representative, in accordance with the foregoing paragraphs. |
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Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art 80. Prisoners' representatives shall further the physical, spiritual and intellectual well-being of prisoners of war. In particular, where the prisoners decide to organize amongst themselves a system of mutual assistance, this organization will be within the province of the prisoners' representative, in addition to the special duties entrusted to him by other provisions of the present Convention. Prisoners' representatives shall not be held responsible, simply by reason of their duties, for any offences committed by prisoners of war. |
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Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art 39. Every prisoner of war camp shall be put under the immediate authority of a responsible commissioned officer belonging to the regular armed forces of the Detaining Power. Such officer shall have in his possession a copy of the present Convention; he shall ensure that its provisions are known to the camp staff and the guard and shall be responsible, under the direction of his government, for its application. Prisoners of war, with the exception of officers, must salute and show to all officers of the Detaining Power the external marks of respect provided for by the regulations applying in their own forces. Officer prisoners of war are bound to salute only officers of a higher rank of the Detaining Power; they must, however, salute the camp commander regardless of his rank. |
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Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art. 40. Protected persons may be compelled to work only to the same extent as nationals of the Party to the conflict in whose territory they are. If protected persons are of enemy nationality, they may only be compelled to do work which is normally necessary to ensure the feeding, sheltering, clothing, transport and health of human beings and which is not directly related to the conduct of military operations. In the cases mentioned in the two preceding paragraphs, protected persons compelled to work shall have the benefit of the same working conditions and of the same safeguards as national workers in particular as regards wages, hours of labour, clothing and equipment, previous training and compensation for occupational accidents and diseases. If the above provisions are infringed, protected persons shall be allowed to exercise their right of complaint in accordance with Article 30. |
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Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art. 41. Should the Power, in whose hands protected persons may be, consider the measures of control mentioned in the present Convention to be inadequate, it may not have recourse to any other measure of control more severe than that of assigned residence or internment, in accordance with the provisions of Articles 42 and 43. In applying the provisions of Article 39, second paragraph, to the cases of persons required to leave their usual places of residence by virtue of a decision placing them in assigned residence elsewhere, the Detaining Power shall be guided as closely as possible by the standards of welfare set forth in Part III, Section IV of this Convention. |
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Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art. 94. The Detaining Power shall encourage intellectual, educational and recreational pursuits, sports and games amongst internees, whilst leaving them free to take part in them or not. It shall take all practicable measures to ensure the exercise thereof, in particular by providing suitable premises. All possible facilities shall be granted to internees to continue their studies or to take up new subjects. The education of children and young people shall be ensured; they shall be allowed to attend schools either within the place of internment or outside. Internees shall be given opportunities for physical exercise, sports and outdoor games. For this purpose, sufficient open spaces shall be set aside in all places of internment. Special playgrounds shall be reserved for children and young people. |
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Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art. 125. Internees awarded disciplinary punishment shall be allowed to exercise and to stay in the open air at least two hours daily. They shall be allowed, if they so request, to be present at the daily medical inspections. They shall receive the attention which their state of health requires and, if necessary, shall be removed to the infirmary of the place of internment or to a hospital. They shall have permission to read and write, likewise to send and receive letters. Parcels and remittances of money, however, may be withheld from them until the completion of their punishment; such consignments shall meanwhile be entrusted to the Internee Committee, who will hand over to the infirmary the perishable goods contained in the parcels. No internee given a disciplinary punishment may be deprived of the benefit of the provisions of Articles 107 and 143 of the present Convention. |
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Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art. 71. No sentence shall be pronounced by the competent courts of the Occupying Power except after a regular trial. Accused persons who are prosecuted by the Occupying Power shall be promptly informed, in writing, in a language which they understand, of the particulars of the charges preferred against them, and shall be brought to trial as rapidly as possible. The Protecting Power shall be informed of all proceedings instituted by the Occupying Power against protected persons in respect of charges involving the death penalty or imprisonment for two years or more; it shall be enabled, at any time, to obtain information regarding the state of such proceedings. Furthermore, the Protecting Power shall be entitled, on request, to be furnished with all particulars of these and of any other proceedings instituted by the Occupying Power against protected persons. The notification to the Protecting Power, as provided for in the second paragraph above, shall be sent immediately, and shall in any case reach the Protecting Power three weeks before the date of the first hearing. Unless, at the opening of the trial, evidence is submitted that the provisions of this Article are fully complied with, the trial shall not proceed. The notification shall include the following particulars:
(a) description of the accused;
(b) place of residence or detention;
(c) specification of the charge or charges (with mention of the penal provisions under which it is brought);
(d) designation of the court which will hear the case;
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Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art. 98. All internees shall receive regular allowances, sufficient to enable them to purchase goods and articles, such as tobacco, toilet requisites, etc. Such allowances may take the form of credits or purchase coupons. Furthermore, internees may receive allowances from the Power to which they owe allegiance, the Protecting Powers, the organizations which may assist them, or their families, as well as the income on their property in accordance with the law of the Detaining Power. The amount of allowances granted by the Power to which they owe allegiance shall be the same for each category of internees (infirm, sick, pregnant women, etc.) but may not be allocated by that Power or distributed by the Detaining Power on the basis of discriminations between internees which are prohibited by Article 27 of the present Convention. The Detaining Power shall open a regular account for every internee, to which shall be credited the allowances named in the present Article, the wages earned and the remittances received, together with such sums taken from him as may be available under the legislation in force in the territory in which he is interned. Internees shall be granted all facilities consistent with the legislation in force in such territory to make remittances to their families and to other dependants. They may draw from their accounts the amounts necessary for their personal expenses, within the limits fixed by the Detaining Power. They shall at all times be afforded reasonable facilities for consulting and obtaining copies of their accounts. A statement of accounts shall be furnished to the Protecting Power, on request, and shall accompany the internee in case of transfer. |
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Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art. 100. The disciplinary regime in places of internment shall be consistent with humanitarian principles, and shall in no circumstances include regulations imposing on internees any physical exertion dangerous to their health or involving physical or moral victimization. Identification by tattooing or imprinting signs or markings on the body, is prohibited. In particular, prolonged standing and roll-calls, punishment drill, military drill and manoeuvres, or the reduction of food rations, are prohibited. |
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Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art. 73. A convicted person shall have the right of appeal provided for by the laws applied by the court. He shall be fully informed of his right to appeal or petition and of the time limit within which he may do so. The penal procedure provided in the present Section shall apply, as far as it is applicable, to appeals. Where the laws applied by the Court make no provision for appeals, the convicted person shall have the right to petition against the finding and sentence to the competent authority of the Occupying Power. |
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Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art. 75. In no case shall persons condemned to death be deprived of the right of petition for pardon or reprieve. No death sentence shall be carried out before the expiration of a period of a least six months from the date of receipt by the Protecting Power of the notification of the final judgment confirming such death sentence, or of an order denying pardon or reprieve. The six months period of suspension of the death sentence herein prescribed may be reduced in individual cases in circumstances of grave emergency involving an organized threat to the security of the Occupying Power or its forces, provided always that the Protecting Power is notified of such reduction and is given reasonable time and opportunity to make representations to the competent occupying authorities in respect of such death sentences. |
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Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art. 49. Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory to the territory of the Occupying Power or to that of any other country, occupied or not, are prohibited, regardless of their motive. Nevertheless, the Occupying Power may undertake total or partial evacuation of a given area if the security of the population or imperative military reasons so demand. Such evacuations may not involve the displacement of protected persons outside the bounds of the occupied territory except when for material reasons it is impossible to avoid such displacement. Persons thus evacuated shall be transferred back to their homes as soon as hostilities in the area in question have ceased. The Occupying Power undertaking such transfers or evacuations shall ensure, to the greatest practicable extent, that proper accommodation is provided to receive the protected persons, that the removals are effected in satisfactory conditions of hygiene, health, safety and nutrition, and that members of the same family are not separated. The Protecting Power shall be informed of any transfers and evacuations as soon as they have taken place. The Occupying Power shall not detain protected persons in an area particularly exposed to the dangers of war unless the security of the population or imperative military reasons so demand. The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies. |
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Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art. 133. Internment shall cease as soon as possible after the close of hostilities. Internees in the territory of a Party to the conflict against whom penal proceedings are pending for offences not exclusively subject to disciplinary penalties, may be detained until the close of such proceedings and, if circumstances require, until the completion of the penalty. The same shall apply to internees who have been previously sentenced to a punishment depriving them of liberty. By agreement between the Detaining Power and the Powers concerned, committees may be set up after the close of hostilities, or of the occupation of territories, to search for dispersed internees. |
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Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art. 136. Upon the outbreak of a conflict and in all cases of occupation, each of the Parties to the conflict shall establish an official Information Bureau responsible for receiving and transmitting information in respect of the protected persons who are in its power. Each of the Parties to the conflict shall, within the shortest possible period, give its Bureau information of any measure taken by it concerning any protected persons who are kept in custody for more than two weeks, who are subjected to assigned residence or who are interned. It shall, furthermore, require its various departments concerned with such matters to provide the aforesaid Bureau promptly with information concerning all changes pertaining to these protected persons, as, for example, transfers, releases, repatriations, escapes, admittances to hospitals, births and deaths. |
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Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art. 137. Each national Bureau shall immediately forward information concerning protected persons by the most rapid means to the Powers in whose territory they resided, through the intermediary of the Protecting Powers and likewise through the Central Agency provided for in Article 140. The Bureaux shall also reply to all enquiries which may be received regarding protected persons. Information Bureaux shall transmit information concerning a protected person unless its transmission might be detrimental to the person concerned or to his or her relatives. Even in such a case, the information may not be withheld from the Central Agency which, upon being notified of the circumstances, will take the necessary precautions indicated in Article 140. All communications in writing made by any Bureau shall be authenticated by a signature or a seal. |
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Convention relating to the Status of Refugees 1951, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | The Contracting States shall apply the provisions of this Convention to refugees without discrimination as to race, religion or country of origin. |
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Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness 1961, para. 2b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | 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; |
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Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness 1961, para. 3a (i) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | 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 |
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Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness 1961, para. 2a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | 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; |
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Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness 1961, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | 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. |
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| 1961 | ||||
Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness 1961, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | 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. |
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| 1961 | ||||
Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness 1961, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | 2. No other reservations to this Convention shall be admissible. |
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| 1961 | ||||
ICERD - International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 1965, para. b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | [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; |
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| 1965 | ||||
ICERD - International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 1965, para. c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | [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; |
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ICERD - International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 1965, para. d (i) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | [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; |
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| 1965 | ||||
ICERD - International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 1965, para. 1e | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | 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. |
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| 1965 | ||||
ICERD - International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 1965, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | 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. |
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ICERD - International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 1965, para. d (vii) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | [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: (vii) The right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; |
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| 1965 | ||||
ICERD - International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 1965, para. d (viii) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | [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: (viii) The right to freedom of opinion and expression; |
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| 1965 | ||||
ICERD - International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 1965, para. d (ix) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | [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: (ix) The right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association; |
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| 1965 | ||||
ICCPR - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | 2. Every child shall be registered immediately after birth and shall have a name. |
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| 1966 | ||||
ICCPR - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | 3. Every child has the right to acquire a nationality. |
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| 1966 | ||||
ICCPR - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | 3. The members of the Committee shall be elected and shall serve in their personal capacity. |
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| 1966 | ||||
ICCPR - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | 3. A person shall be eligible for renomination. |
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| 1966 | ||||
ICCPR - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | 2. Amendments shall come into force when they have been approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations and accepted by a two-thirds majority of the States Parties to the present Covenant in accordance with their respective constitutional processes. 3. When amendments come into force, they shall be binding on those States Parties which have accepted them, other States Parties still being bound by the provisions of the present Covenant and any earlier amendment which they have accepted. |
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| 1966 | ||||
ICESCR - International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 1966, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | The States Parties to the present Covenant, |
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| 1966 | ||||
ICESCR - International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 1966, para. b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | Recognizing that these rights derive from the inherent dignity of the human person, |
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| 1966 | ||||
ICESCR - International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 1966, para. f | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | Agree upon the following articles: |
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| 1966 | ||||
ICESCR - International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 1966, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | 1. Each State Party to the present Covenant undertakes to take steps, individually and through international assistance and co-operation, especially economic and technical, to the maximum of its available resources, with a view to achieving progressively the full realization of the rights recognized in the present Covenant by all appropriate means, including particularly the adoption of legislative measures. |
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| 1966 | ||||
ICESCR - International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 1966, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize that, in the enjoyment of those rights provided by the State in conformity with the present Covenant, the State may subject such rights only to such limitations as are determined by law only in so far as this may be compatible with the nature of these rights and solely for the purpose of promoting the general welfare in a democratic society. |
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| 1966 | ||||
ICCPR - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | 4. Elections of the members of the Committee shall be held at a meeting of the States Parties to the present Covenant convened by the Secretary General of the United Nations at the Headquarters of the United Nations. At that meeting, for which two thirds of the States Parties to the present Covenant shall constitute a quorum, the persons elected to the Committee shall be those nominees who obtain the largest number of votes and an absolute majority of the votes of the representatives of States Parties present and voting. |
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| 1966 | ||||
CEDAW - Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 1979, para. h | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | The third general thrust of the Convention aims at enlarging our understanding of the concept of human rights, as it gives formal recognition to the influence of culture and tradition on restricting women's enjoyment of their fundamental rights. These forces take shape in stereotypes, customs and norms which give rise to the multitude of legal, political and economic constraints on the advancement of women. Noting this interrelationship, the preamble of the Convention stresses "that a change in the traditional role of men as well as the role of women in society and in the family is needed to achieve full equality of men and women". States parties are therefore obliged to work towards the modification of social and cultural patterns of individual conduct in order to eliminate "prejudices and customary and all other practices which are based on the idea of the inferiority or the superiority of either of the sexes or on stereotyped roles for men and women" (article 5). And Article 1O.c. mandates the revision of textbooks, school programmes and teaching methods with a view to eliminating stereotyped concepts in the field of education. Finally, cultural patterns which define the public realm as a man's world and the domestic sphere as women's domain are strongly targeted in all of the Convention's provisions that affirm the equal responsibilities of both sexes in family life and their equal rights with regard to education and employment. Altogether, the Convention provides a comprehensive framework for challenging the various forces that have created and sustained discrimination based upon sex. |
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| 1979 | ||||
CEDAW - Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 1979, para. j | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | At least every four years, the States parties are expected to submit a national report to the Committee, indicating the measures they have adopted to give effect to the provisions of the Convention. During its annual session, the Committee members discuss these reports with the Government representatives and explore with them areas for further action by the specific country. The Committee also makes general recommendations to the States parties on matters concerning the elimination of discrimination against women. |
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| 1979 | ||||
CEDAW - Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 1979, para. k | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | The full text of the Convention is set out herein: |
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| 1979 | ||||
CEDAW - Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 1979, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | The States Parties to the present Convention, |
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| 1979 | ||||
CEDAW - Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 1979, para. k | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | Affirming that the strengthening of international peace and security, the relaxation of international tension, mutual co-operation among all States irrespective of their social and economic systems, general and complete disarmament, in particular nuclear disarmament under strict and effective international control, the affirmation of the principles of justice, equality and mutual benefit in relations among countries and the realization of the right of peoples under alien and colonial domination and foreign occupation to self-determination and independence, as well as respect for national sovereignty and territorial integrity, will promote social progress and development and as a consequence will contribute to the attainment of full equality between men and women, |
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| 1979 | ||||
CEDAW - Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 1979, para. p | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | Have agreed on the following: |
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| 1979 | ||||
CEDAW - Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 1979, para. a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | States Parties condemn discrimination against women in all its forms, agree to pursue by all appropriate means and without delay a policy of eliminating discrimination against women and, to this end, undertake: (a) To embody the principle of the equality of men and women in their national constitutions or other appropriate legislation if not yet incorporated therein and to ensure, through law and other appropriate means, the practical realization of this principle; |
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| 1979 | ||||
CEDAW - Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 1979, para. a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in order to ensure to them equal rights with men in the field of education and in particular to ensure, on a basis of equality of men and women: (a) The same conditions for career and vocational guidance, for access to studies and for the achievement of diplomas in educational establishments of all categories in rural as well as in urban areas; this equality shall be ensured in pre-school, general, technical, professional and higher technical education, as well as in all types of vocational training; |
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| 1979 | ||||
CEDAW - Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 1979, para. c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in order to ensure to them equal rights with men in the field of education and in particular to ensure, on a basis of equality of men and women: (c) The elimination of any stereotyped concept of the roles of men and women at all levels and in all forms of education by encouraging coeducation and other types of education which will help to achieve this aim and, in particular, by the revision of textbooks and school programmes and the adaptation of teaching methods; |
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| 1979 | ||||
CEDAW - Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 1979, para. e | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in order to ensure to them equal rights with men in the field of education and in particular to ensure, on a basis of equality of men and women: (e) The same opportunities for access to programmes of continuing education, including adult and functional literacy programmes, particularly those aimed at reducing, at the earliest possible time, any gap in education existing between men and women; |
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| 1979 | ||||
Minimum Age Convention 1973, para. 6. (b) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Labour Organization | Legally binding | International treaty | [This Convention does not apply to work done by children and young persons in schools for general, vocational or technical education or in other training institutions, or to work done by persons at least 14 years of age in undertakings, where such work is carried out in accordance with conditions prescribed by the competent authority, after consultation with the organizations of employers and workers concerned, where such exist, and is an integral part of:] a programme of training mainly or entirely in an undertaking, which programme has been approved by the competent authority; or |
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| 1973 | ||||
CEDAW - Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 1979, para. 2c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | 2. In order to prevent discrimination against women on the grounds of marriage or maternity and to ensure their effective right to work, States Parties shall take appropriate measures: (c) To encourage the provision of the necessary supporting social services to enable parents to combine family obligations with work responsibilities and participation in public life, in particular through promoting the establishment and development of a network of child-care facilities; |
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| 1979 | ||||
CAT - Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 1984, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | 1. Upon being satisfied, after an examination of information available to it, that the circumstances so warrant, any State Party in whose territory a person alleged to have committed any offence referred to in article 4 is present shall take him into custody or take other legal measures to ensure his presence. The custody and other legal measures shall be as provided in the law of that State but may be continued only for such time as is necessary to enable any criminal or extradition proceedings to be instituted. |
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CAT - Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 1984, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | 4. When a State, pursuant to this article, has taken a person into custody, it shall immediately notify the States referred to in article 5, paragraph 1, of the fact that such person is in custody and of the circumstances which warrant his detention. The State which makes the preliminary inquiry contemplated in paragraph 2 of this article shall promptly report its findings to the said States and shall indicate whether it intends to exercise jurisdiction. |
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| 1984 | ||||
Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction 1980, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Hague Conference on Private International Law | Legally binding | International treaty | Any other State may accede to the Convention.
The instrument of accession shall be deposited with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
The Convention shall enter into force for a State acceding to it on the first day of the third calendar month after the deposit of its instrument of accession.
The accession will have effect only as regards the relations between the acceding State and such Contracting States as will have declared their acceptance of the accession. Such a declaration will also have to be made by any Member State ratifying, accepting or approving the Convention after an accession. Such declaration shall be deposited at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; this Ministry shall forward, through diplomatic channels, a certified copy to each of the Contracting States.
The Convention will enter into force as between the acceding State and the State that has declared its acceptance of the accession on the first day of the third calendar month after the deposit of the declaration of acceptance. |
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| 1980 | ||||
Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction 1980, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Hague Conference on Private International Law | Legally binding | International treaty | If a Contracting State has two or more territorial units in which different systems of law are applicable in relation to matters dealt with in this Convention, it may at the time of signature, ratification, acceptance, approval or accession declare that this Convention shall extend to all its territorial units or only to one or more of them and may modify this declaration by submitting another declaration at any time.
Any such declaration shall be notified to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and shall state expressly the territorial units to which the Convention applies. |
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| 1980 | ||||
Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art 83. In deciding whether proceedings in respect of an offence alleged to have been committed by a prisoner of war shall be judicial or disciplinary, the Detaining Power shall ensure that the competent authorities exercise the greatest leniency and adopt, wherever possible, disciplinary rather than judicial measures. |
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| 1949 | ||||
ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1990, para. e | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | Recognizing the importance of the work done in connection with migrant workers and members of their families in various organs of the United Nations, in particular in the Commission on Human Rights and the Commission for Social Development, and in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the World Health Organization, as well as in other international organizations, |
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| 1990 | ||||
Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art. 16. The wounded and sick, as well as the infirm, and expectant mothers, shall be the object of particular protection and respect. As far as military considerations allow, each Party to the conflict shall facilitate the steps taken to search for the killed and wounded, to assist the shipwrecked and other persons exposed to grave danger, and to protect them against pillage and ill-treatment. |
| 1949 | |||||
Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art. 26. Each Party to the conflict shall facilitate enquiries made by members of families dispersed owing to the war, with the object of renewing contact with one another and of meeting, if possible. It shall encourage, in particular, the work of organizations engaged on this task provided they are acceptable to it and conform to its security regulations. |
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| 1949 | ||||
Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art. 42. The internment or placing in assigned residence of protected persons may be ordered only if the security of the Detaining Power makes it absolutely necessary. If any person, acting through the representatives of the Protecting Power, voluntarily demands internment, and if his situation renders this step necessary, he shall be interned by the Power in whose hands he may be. |
| 1949 | |||||
Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art. 52. No contract, agreement or regulation shall impair the right of any worker, whether voluntary or not and wherever he may be, to apply to the representatives of the Protecting Power in order to request the said Power's intervention. All measures aiming at creating unemployment or at restricting the opportunities offered to workers in an occupied territory, in order to induce them to work for the Occupying Power, are prohibited. |
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| 1949 | ||||
ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1990, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | Before their departure, or at the latest at the time of their admission to the State of employment, migrant workers and members of their families shall have the right to be fully informed by the State of origin or the State of employment, as appropriate, of all conditions applicable to their admission and particularly those concerning their stay and the remunerated activities in which they may engage as well as of the requirements they must satisfy in the State of employment and the authority to which they must address themselves for any modification of those conditions. |
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| 1990 | ||||
Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art 47. Sick or wounded prisoners of war shall not be transferred as long as their recovery may be endangered by the journey, unless their safety imperatively demands it. If the combat zone draws closer to a camp, the prisoners of war in the said camp shall not be transferred unless their transfer can be carried out in adequate conditions of safety, or unless they are exposed to greater risks by remaining on the spot than by being transferred. |
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| 1949 | ||||
Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art. 134. The High Contracting Parties shall endeavour, upon the close of hostilities or occupation, to ensure the return of all internees to their last place of residence, or to facilitate their repatriation. |
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| 1949 | ||||
Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art. 8. Protected persons may in no circumstances renounce in part or in entirety the rights secured to them by the present Convention, and by the special agreements referred to in the foregoing Article, if such there be. |
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| 1949 | ||||
Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art. 150. The present Convention is established in English and in French. Both texts are equally authentic. The Swiss Federal Council shall arrange for official translations of the Convention to be made in the Russian and Spanish languages. |
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Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art. 151. The present Convention, which bears the date of this day, is open to signature until 12 February 1950, in the name of the Powers represented at the Conference which opened at Geneva on 21 April 1949. |
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| 1949 | ||||
Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art. 153. The present Convention shall come into force six months after not less than two instruments of ratification have been deposited. Thereafter, it shall come into force for each High Contracting Party six months after the deposit of the instrument of ratification. |
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| 1949 | ||||
Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art. 155. From the date of its coming into force, it shall be open to any Power in whose name the present Convention has not been signed, to accede to this Convention. |
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| 1949 | ||||
ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1990, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | 2. The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall, in due time before the opening of each regular session of the Committee, transmit to the Director-General of the International Labour Office copies of the reports submitted by States Parties concerned and information relevant to the consideration of these reports, in order to enable the Office to assist the Committee with the expertise the Office may provide regarding those matters dealt with by the present Convention that fall within the sphere of competence of the International Labour Organisation. The Committee shall consider in its deliberations such comments and materials as the Office may provide. |
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| 1990 | ||||
ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1990, para. 1c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | [1. States Parties shall maintain appropriate services to deal with questions concerning international migration of workers and members of their families. Their functions shall include, inter alia:] (c) The provision of appropriate information, particularly to employers, workers and their organizations on policies, laws and regulations relating to migration and employment, on agreements concluded with other States concerning migration and on other relevant matters; |
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| 1990 | ||||
ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1990, para. 1d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | [1. States Parties shall maintain appropriate services to deal with questions concerning international migration of workers and members of their families. Their functions shall include, inter alia:] (d) The provision of information and appropriate assistance to migrant workers and members of their families regarding requisite authorizations and formalities and arrangements for departure, travel, arrival, stay, remunerated activities, exit and return, as well as on conditions of work and life in the State of employment and on customs, currency, tax and other relevant laws and regulations. |
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| 1990 | ||||
ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1990, para. 1b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | [1. States Parties, including States of transit, shall collaborate with a view to preventing and eliminating illegal or clandestine movements and employment of migrant workers in an irregular situation. The measures to be taken to this end within the jurisdiction of each State concerned shall include:] (b) Measures to detect and eradicate illegal or clandestine movements of migrant workers and members of their families and to impose effective sanctions on persons, groups or entities which organize, operate or assist in organizing or operating such movements; |
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| 1990 | ||||
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court | Legally binding | International treaty | Recognizing that such grave crimes threaten the peace, security and well-being of the world, |
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| 1998 | ||||
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court | Legally binding | International treaty | Resolved to guarantee lasting respect for and the enforcement of international justice, |
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| 1998 | ||||
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court | Legally binding | International treaty | Have agreed as follows : |
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| 1998 | ||||
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court | Legally binding | International treaty | For the purpose of this Statute, "genocide" means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. |
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| 1998 | ||||
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998, para. 2a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court | Legally binding | International treaty | 2. For the purpose of this Statute, "war crimes" means: (a) Grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the following acts against persons or property protected under the provisions of the relevant Geneva Convention:
(i) Wilful killing; (ii) Torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments; (iii) Wilfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health; (iv) Extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly; (v) Compelling a prisoner of war or other protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile Power; (vi) Wilfully depriving a prisoner of war or other protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial; (vii) Unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement; (viii) Taking of hostages. |
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| 1998 | ||||
ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1990, para. 5b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | (b) The election of the four additional members of the Committee shall be held in accordance with the provisions of paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of the present article, following the entry into force of the Convention for the forty-first State Party. The term of two of the additional members elected on this occasion shall expire at the end of two years; the names of these members shall be chosen by lot by the Chairman of the meeting of States Parties; |
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| 1990 | ||||
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court | Legally binding | International treaty | 2. The Office shall be headed by the Prosecutor. The Prosecutor shall have full authority over the management and administration of the Office, including the staff, facilities and other resources thereof. The Prosecutor shall be assisted by one or more Deputy Prosecutors, who shall be entitled to carry out any of the acts required of the Prosecutor under this Statute. The Prosecutor and the Deputy Prosecutors shall be of different nationalities. They shall serve on a full-time basis. |
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| 1998 | ||||
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court | Legally binding | International treaty | 4. The Prosecutor shall be elected by secret ballot by an absolute majority of the members of the Assembly of States Parties. The Deputy Prosecutors shall be elected in the same way from a list of candidates provided by the Prosecutor. The Prosecutor shall nominate three candidates for each position of Deputy Prosecutor to be filled. Unless a shorter term is decided upon at the time of their election, the Prosecutor and the Deputy Prosecutors shall hold office for a term of nine years and shall not be eligible for re-election. |
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| 1998 | ||||
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court | Legally binding | International treaty | 1. The Prosecutor shall, having evaluated the information made available to him or her, initiate an investigation unless he or she determines that there is no reasonable basis to proceed under this Statute. In deciding whether to initiate an investigation, the Prosecutor shall consider whether:
(a) The information available to the Prosecutor provides a reasonable basis to believe that a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court has been or is being committed;
(b) The case is or would be admissible under article 17; and
(c) Taking into account the gravity of the crime and the interests of victims, there are nonetheless substantial reasons to believe that an investigation would not serve the interests of justice.
If the Prosecutor determines that there is no reasonable basis to proceed and his or her determination is based solely on subparagraph (c) above, he or she shall inform the Pre-Trial Chamber. |
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| 1998 | ||||
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998, para. 1c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court | Legally binding | International treaty | 1. Where the accused makes an admission of guilt pursuant to article 64, paragraph 8 (a), the Trial Chamber shall determine whether: (c) The admission of guilt is supported by the facts of the case that are contained in:
(i) The charges brought by the Prosecutor and admitted by the accused;
(ii) Any materials presented by the Prosecutor which supplement the charges and which the accused accepts; and
(iii) Any other evidence, such as the testimony of witnesses, presented by the Prosecutor or the accused. |
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| 1998 | ||||
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court | Legally binding | International treaty | 2. The onus is on the Prosecutor to prove the guilt of the accused. |
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| 1998 | ||||
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998, para. 1d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court | Legally binding | International treaty | 1. In the determination of any charge, the accused shall be entitled to a public hearing, having regard to the provisions of this Statute, to a fair hearing conducted impartially, and to the following minimum guarantees, in full equality: (d) Subject to article 63, paragraph 2, to be present at the trial, to conduct the defence in person or through legal assistance of the accused's choosing, to be informed, if the accused does not have legal assistance, of this right and to have legal assistance assigned by the Court in any case where the interests of justice so require, and without payment if the accused lacks sufficient means to pay for it; |
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| 1998 | ||||
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998, para. 1e | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court | Legally binding | International treaty | 1. In the determination of any charge, the accused shall be entitled to a public hearing, having regard to the provisions of this Statute, to a fair hearing conducted impartially, and to the following minimum guarantees, in full equality: (e) To examine, or have examined, the witnesses against him or her and to obtain the attendance and examination of witnesses on his or her behalf under the same conditions as witnesses against him or her. The accused shall also be entitled to raise defences and to present other evidence admissible under this Statute; |
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| 1998 | ||||
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998, para. 3e | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court | Legally binding | International treaty | 3. (e) If an unscheduled landing occurs on the territory of the transit State, that State may require a request for transit from the Court as provided for in subparagraph (b). The transit State shall detain the person being transported until the request for transit is received and the transit is effected, provided that detention for purposes of this subparagraph may not be extended beyond 96 hours from the unscheduled landing unless the request is received within that time. |
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| 1998 | ||||
ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1990, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | The rights of migrant workers and members of their families provided for in the present Convention may not be renounced. It shall not be permissible to exert any form of pressure upon migrant workers and members of their families with a view to their relinquishing or foregoing any of the said rights. It shall not be possible to derogate by contract from rights recognized in the present Convention. States Parties shall take appropriate measures to ensure that these principles are respected. |
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| 1990 | ||||
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998, para. 6b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court | Legally binding | International treaty | 6. In cases where paragraph 4 applies except that the requested State is under an existing international obligation to extradite the person to the requesting State not Party to this Statute, the requested State shall determine whether to surrender the person to the Court or extradite the person to the requesting State. In making its decision, the requested State shall consider all the relevant factors, including but not limited to: (b) The interests of the requesting State including, where relevant, whether the crime was committed in its territory and the nationality of the victims and of the person sought; and |
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| 1998 | ||||
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998, para. 7a (i) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court | Legally binding | International treaty | 7. Thereafter, if the Court determines that the evidence is relevant and necessary for the establishment of the guilt or innocence of the accused, the Court may undertake the following actions: (a) Where disclosure of the information or document is sought pursuant to a request for cooperation under Part 9 or the circumstances described in paragraph 2, and the State has invoked the ground for refusal referred to in article 93, paragraph 4: (i) The Court may, before making any conclusion referred to in subparagraph 7 (a) (ii), request further consultations for the purpose of considering the State's representations, which may include, as appropriate, hearings in camera and ex parte ; |
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| 1998 | ||||
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court | Legally binding | International treaty | The expenses of the Court and the Assembly of States Parties, including its Bureau and subsidiary bodies, as provided for in the budget decided by the Assembly of States Parties, shall be provided by the following sources:
(a) Assessed contributions made by States Parties;
(b) Funds provided by the United Nations, subject to the approval of the General Assembly, in particular in relation to the expenses incurred due to referrals by the Security Council. |
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| 1998 | ||||
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court | Legally binding | International treaty | 2. Any other dispute between two or more States Parties relating to the interpretation or application of this Statute which is not settled through negotiations within three months of their commencement shall be referred to the Assembly of States Parties. The Assembly may itself seek to settle the dispute or may make recommendations on further means of settlement of the dispute, including referral to the International Court of Justice in conformity with the Statute of that Court. |
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| 1998 | ||||
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court | Legally binding | International treaty | No reservations may be made to this Statute. |
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| 1998 | ||||
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court | Legally binding | International treaty | 1. Amendments to provisions of this Statute which are of an exclusively institutional nature, namely, article 35, article 36, paragraphs 8 and 9, article 37, article 38, article 39, paragraphs 1 (first two sentences), 2 and 4, article 42, paragraphs 4 to 9, article 43, paragraphs 2 and 3, and articles 44, 46, 47 and 49, may be proposed at any time, notwithstanding article 121, paragraph 1, by any State Party. The text of any proposed amendment shall be submitted to the Secretary-General of the United Nations or such other person designated by the Assembly of States Parties who shall promptly circulate it to all States Parties and to others participating in the Assembly. |
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| 1998 | ||||
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998, para. 9a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court | Legally binding | International treaty | 9. (a) (i) In the event that a State Party receives competing requests, other than for surrender or extradition, from the Court and from another State pursuant to an international obligation, the State Party shall endeavour, in consultation with the Court and the other State, to meet both requests, if necessary by postponing or attaching conditions to one or the other request.
(ii) Failing that, competing requests shall be resolved in accordance with the principles established in article 90. |
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| 1998 | ||||
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court | Legally binding | International treaty | 1. If the immediate execution of a request would interfere with an ongoing investigation or prosecution of a case different from that to which the request relates, the requested State may postpone the execution of the request for a period of time agreed upon with the Court. However, the postponement shall be no longer than is necessary to complete the relevant investigation or prosecution in the requested State. Before making a decision to postpone, the requested State should consider whether the assistance may be immediately provided subject to certain conditions. |
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| 1998 | ||||
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the UN Convention against Transnational Crime 2000, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | 2. For each State or regional economic integration organization ratifying, accepting, approving or acceding to this Protocol after the deposit of the fortieth instrument of such action, this Protocol shall enter into force on the thirtieth day after the date of deposit by such State or organization of the relevant instrument or on the date this Protocol enters into force pursuant to paragraph 1 of this article, whichever is the later. |
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| 2000 | ||||
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the UN Convention against Transnational Crime 2000, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | 1. After the expiry of five years from the entry into force of this Protocol, a State Party to the Protocol may propose an amendment and file it with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall thereupon communicate the proposed amendment to the States Parties and to the Conference of the Parties to the Convention for the purpose of considering and deciding on the proposal. The States Parties to this Protocol meeting at the Conference of the Parties shall make every effort to achieve consensus on each amendment. If all efforts at consensus have been exhausted and no agreement has been reached, the amendment shall, as a last resort, require for its adoption a two-thirds majority vote of the States Parties to this Protocol present and voting at the meeting of the Conference of the Parties. |
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| 2000 | ||||
CRPD - Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2006, para. d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | (d) Recalling the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, |
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| 2006 | ||||
CRPD - Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2006, para. i | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | (i) Recognizing further the diversity of persons with disabilities, |
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| 2006 | ||||
CRPD - Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2006, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | Have agreed as follows : |
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| 2006 | ||||
CRPD - Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2006, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | For the purposes of the present Convention:
Communication includes languages, display of text, Braille, tactile communication, large print, accessible multimedia as well as written, audio, plain-language, human-reader and augmentative and alternative modes, means and formats of communication, including accessible information and communication technology;
Language includes spoken and signed languages and other forms of non-spoken languages;
Discrimination on the basis of disability means any distinction, exclusion or restriction on the basis of disability which has the purpose or effect of impairing or nullifying the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal basis with others, of all human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural, civil or any other field. It includes all forms of discrimination, including denial of reasonable accommodation;
Reasonable accommodation means necessary and appropriate modification and adjustments not imposing a disproportionate or undue burden, where needed in a particular case, to ensure to persons with disabilities the enjoyment or exercise on an equal basis with others of all human rights and fundamental freedoms;
Universal design means the design of products, environments, programmes and services to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design. "Universal design" shall not exclude assistive devices for particular groups of persons with disabilities where this is needed. |
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| 2006 | ||||
CRPD - Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2006, para. b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | [The principles of the present Convention shall be:] (b) Non-discrimination; |
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| 2006 | ||||
CRPD - Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2006, para. c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | [The principles of the present Convention shall be:] (c) Full and effective participation and inclusion in society; |
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| 2006 | ||||
CRPD - Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2006, para. e | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | [The principles of the present Convention shall be:] (e) Equality of opportunity; |
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| 2006 | ||||
CRPD - Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2006, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | 3. The Committee shall decide any guidelines applicable to the content of the reports. |
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| 2006 | ||||
CRPD - Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2006, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | 2. If a State Party is significantly overdue in the submission of a report, the Committee may notify the State Party concerned of the need to examine the implementation of the present Convention in that State Party, on the basis of reliable information available to the Committee, if the relevant report is not submitted within three months following the notification. The Committee shall invite the State Party concerned to participate in such examination. Should the State Party respond by submitting the relevant report, the provisions of paragraph 1 of this article will apply. |
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| 2006 | ||||
CRPD - Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2006, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | 3. The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall make available the reports to all States Parties. |
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| 2006 | ||||
CRPD - Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2006, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | 1. Any State Party may propose an amendment to the present Convention and submit it to the Secretary-General of the United Nations. The Secretary-General shall communicate any proposed amendments to States Parties, with a request to be notified whether they favour a conference of States Parties for the purpose of considering and deciding upon the proposals. In the event that, within four months from the date of such communication, at least one third of the States Parties favour such a conference, the Secretary-General shall convene the conference under the auspices of the United Nations. Any amendment adopted by a majority of two thirds of the States Parties present and voting shall be submitted by the Secretary-General to the General Assembly for approval and thereafter to all States Parties for acceptance. |
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| 2006 | ||||
CRPD - Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2006, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | 2. An amendment adopted and approved in accordance with paragraph 1 of this article shall enter into force on the thirtieth day after the number of instruments of acceptance deposited reaches two thirds of the number of States Parties at the date of adoption of the amendment. Thereafter, the amendment shall enter into force for any State Party on the thirtieth day following the deposit of its own instrument of acceptance. An amendment shall be binding only on those States Parties which have accepted it. |
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| 2006 | ||||
CRPD - Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2006, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | The text of the present Convention shall be made available in accessible formats. |
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| 2006 | ||||
CRPD - Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2006, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | The Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish texts of the present Convention shall be equally authentic. |
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| 2006 | ||||
ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | The States Parties to this Convention, |
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| 2006 | ||||
The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | 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; |
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| 2013 | ||||
The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. e | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | 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, |
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| 2013 | ||||
The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. f | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | Acknowledging that peace and security, development and human rights are pillars of the United Nations system and foundations for collective security and recognizing that development, peace and security and human rights are interlinked and mutually reinforcing, |
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| 2013 | ||||
The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. g | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | Recalling the United Nations Disarmament Commission Guidelines for international arms transfers in the context of General Assembly resolution 46/36H of 6 December 1991, |
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| 2013 | ||||
The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | Implementing this Treaty in a consistent, objective and non-discriminatory manner, |
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| 2013 | ||||
The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. 1b (i) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | If the export is not prohibited under Article 6, each exporting State Party, prior to authorization of the export of conventional arms covered under Article 2 (1) or of items covered under Article 3 or Article 4, under its jurisdiction and pursuant to its national control system, shall, in an objective and non-discriminatory manner, taking into account relevant factors, including information provided by the importing State in accordance with Article 8 (1), assess the potential that the conventional arms or items: could be used to: commit or facilitate a serious violation of international humanitarian law; |
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| 2013 | ||||
ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | A Conference of the States Parties will take place at the earliest four years and at the latest six years following the entry into force of this Convention to evaluate the functioning of the Committee and to decide, in accordance with the procedure described in article 44, paragraph 2, whether it is appropriate to transfer to another body - without excluding any possibility - the monitoring of this Convention, in accordance with the functions defined in articles 28 to 36. |
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| 2006 | ||||
The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. n | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | Mindful also of the role regional organizations can play in assisting States Parties, upon request, in implementing this Treaty, |
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| 2013 | ||||
The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | Each State Party shall establish and maintain a national control system, including a national control list, in order to implement the provisions of this Treaty. |
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| 2013 | ||||
The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. 3a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | The Secretariat shall be responsible to States Parties. Within a minimized structure, the Secretariat shall undertake the following responsibilities: (a) Receive, make available and distribute the reports as mandated by this Treaty; |
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| 2013 | ||||
The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. 3b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | The Secretariat shall be responsible to States Parties. Within a minimized structure, the Secretariat shall undertake the following responsibilities: (b) Maintain and make available to States Parties the list of national points of contact; |
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| 2013 | ||||
The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | 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. |
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| 2013 | ||||
The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | States Parties may pursue, by mutual consent, arbitration to settle any dispute between them, regarding issues concerning the interpretation or application of this Treaty. |
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| 2013 | ||||
The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. 4a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | The Conference of States Parties shall: (a) Review the implementation of this Treaty, including developments in the field of conventional arms; |
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| 2013 | ||||
The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | This Treaty is subject to ratification, acceptance or approval by each signatory State. |
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| 2013 | ||||
The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. q | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | Emphasizing the desirability of achieving universal adherence to this Treaty, |
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| 2013 | ||||
The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | The original text of this Treaty, of which the Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish texts are equally authentic, shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations. |
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| 2013 | ||||
Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention 2014, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Labour Organization | Legally binding | International treaty | Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its 103rd Session on 28 May 2014, and |
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| 2014 | ||||
Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention 2014, para. Preamble 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Labour Organization | Legally binding | International treaty | Emphasizing the urgency of eliminating forced and compulsory labour in all its forms and manifestations, and |
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| 2014 | ||||
Inter-American Convention on the Granting of Civil Rights to Women 1948, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | Have Resolved: |
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| 1948 | ||||
Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention 2014, para. 12 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Labour Organization | Legally binding | International treaty | Noting other relevant international instruments, in particular the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966), the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966), the Slavery Convention (1926), the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery (1956), the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (2000), the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children (2000), the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air (2000), the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (1990), the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984), the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979), and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006), and |
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| 2014 | ||||
Inter-American Convention on the Granting of Civil Rights to Women 1948, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | The American States agree to grant to women the same civil rights that men enjoy. |
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| 1948 | ||||
Inter-American Convention on the Granting of Civil Rights to Women 1948, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | The present Convention shall be open for signature by the American States and shall be ratified in accordance with their respective constitutional procedures. The original instrument, the Spanish, English, Portuguese and French texts of which are equally authentic, shall be deposited with the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States, which shall transmit certified copies to the Governments for the purpose of ratification. The instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States, which shall notify the signatory governments of the said deposit. Such notification shall serve as an exchange of ratifications. |
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| 1948 | ||||
Inter-American Convention on the Granting of Political Rights to Women 1948, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | THE GOVERNMENTS REPRESENTED AT THE NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES, |
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| 1948 | ||||
Inter-American Convention on the Granting of Political Rights to Women 1948, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | CONSIDERING: |
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| 1948 | ||||
Inter-American Convention on the Granting of Political Rights to Women 1948, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | That the majority of the American Republics, inspired by lofty principles of justice, have granted political rights to women; |
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| 1948 | ||||
Inter-American Convention on the Granting of Political Rights to Women 1948, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | That the principle of equality of human rights for men and women is contained in the Charter of the United Nations, |
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| 1948 | ||||
Inter-American Convention on the Granting of Political Rights to Women 1948, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | HAVE RESOLVED: |
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| 1948 | ||||
Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 1952, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | The governments signatory hereto, being members of the Council of Europe, |
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| 1952 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 3. No one shall be subject to arbitrary arrest or imprisonment. |
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| 1969 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 4. In no case shall capital punishment be inflicted for political offenses or related common crimes. |
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| 1969 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | Every person has the right to be compensated in accordance with the law in the event he has been sentenced by a final judgment through a miscarriage of justice. |
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| 1969 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 6. Anyone who is deprived of his liberty shall be entitled to recourse to a competent court, in order that the court may decide without delay on the lawfulness of his arrest or detention and order his release if the arrest or detention is unlawful. In States Parties whose laws provide that anyone who believes himself to be threatened with deprivation of his liberty is entitled to recourse to a competent court in order that it may decide on the lawfulness of such threat, this remedy may not be restricted or abolished. The interested party or another person in his behalf is entitled to seek these remedies. |
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| 1969 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 7. No one shall be detained for debt. This principle shall not limit the orders of a competent judicial authority issued for nonfulfillment of duties of support. |
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| 1969 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 2. No one shall be subject to restrictions that might impair his freedom to maintain or to change his religion or beliefs. |
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| 1969 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 4. Parents or guardians, as the case may be, have the right to provide for the religious and moral education of their children or wards that is in accord with their own convictions. |
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| 1969 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 2. The correction or reply shall not in any case remit other legal liabilities that may have been incurred. |
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| 1969 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 1. Everyone has the right to associate freely for ideological, religious, political, economic, labor, social, cultural, sports, or other purposes. |
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| 1969 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 3. The provisions of this article do not bar the imposition of legal restrictions, including even deprivation of the exercise of the right of association, on members of the armed forces and the police. |
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| 1969 | ||||
Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 1950, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 2. The terms of office of judges shall expire when they reach the age of 70. |
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| 1950 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 2a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 2. The States Parties undertake:
a. to ensure that any person claiming such remedy shall have his rights determined by the competent authority provided for by the legal system of the state; |
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| 1969 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | Reaffirming their intention to consolidate in this hemisphere, within the framework of democratic institutions, a system of personal liberty and social justice based on respect for the essential rights of man; |
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| 1969 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 1. Only the States Parties and the Commission shall have the right to submit a case to the Court. |
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| 1969 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 2. The report shall be transmitted to the states concerned, which shall not be at liberty to publish it. |
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| 1969 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | The members of the Commission shall be elected by secret ballot of the General Assembly from the list of candidates referred to in Article 79. The candidates who obtain the largest number of votes and an absolute majority of the votes of the representatives of the member states shall be declared elected. Should it become necessary to have several ballots in order to elect all the members of the Commission, the candidates who receive the smallest number of votes shall be eliminated successively, in the manner determined by the General Assembly. |
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| 1969 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | The judges of the Court shall be elected from the list of candidates referred to in Article 81, by secret ballot of the States Parties to the Convention in the General Assembly. The candidates who obtain the largest number of votes and an absolute majority of the votes of the representatives of the States Parties shall be declared elected. Should it become necessary to have several ballots in order to elect all the judges of the Court, the candidates who receive the smallest number of votes shall be eliminated successively, in the manner determined by the States Parties. |
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| 1969 | ||||
Protocol No. 7 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 1984, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | The member States of the Council of Europe signatory hereto, |
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| 1984 | ||||
Protocol No. 7 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 1984, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | Have agreed as follows: |
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| 1984 | ||||
Protocol No. 7 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 1984, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | When a person has by a final decision been convicted of a criminal offence and when subsequently his conviction has been reversed, or he has been pardoned, on the ground that a new or newly discovered fact shows conclusively that there has been a miscarriage of justice, the person who has suffered punishment as a result of such conviction shall be compensated according to the law or the practice of the State concerned, unless it is proved that the non-disclosure of the unknown fact in time is wholly or partly attributable to him. |
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| 1984 | ||||
Protocol No. 7 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 1984, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 6. Any State which has made a declaration in accordance with paragraph 1 or 2 of this article may at any time thereafter declare on behalf of one or more of the territories to which the declaration relates that it accepts the competence of the Court to receive applications from individuals, non-governmental organisations or groups of individuals as provided in Article 34 of the Convention in respect of Articles 1 to 5 of this Protocol. (1) |
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| 1984 | ||||
Protocol No. 7 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 1984, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | This Protocol shall be open for signature by member States of the Council of Europe which have signed the Convention. It is subject to ratification, acceptance or approval. A member State of the Council of Europe may not ratify, accept or approve this Protocol without previously or simultaneously ratifying the Convention. Instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval shall be deposited with the Secretary General of the Council of Europe. |
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| 1984 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | Five judges shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business by the Court. |
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| 1969 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | The Commission shall appear in all cases before the Court. |
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| 1969 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 2. The Court shall appoint its own Secretary. |
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| 1969 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 3. The Secretary shall have his office at the place where the Court has its seat and shall attend the meetings that the Court may hold away from its seat. |
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| 1969 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | The Court shall draw up its Statute which it shall submit to the General Assembly for approval. It shall adopt its own Rules of Procedure. |
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| 1969 | ||||
African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child 1990, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of African Unity | Legally binding | Regional treaty | The Committee shall publish its report after it has been considered by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government. |
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| 1990 | ||||
African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child 1990, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of African Unity | Legally binding | Regional treaty | State Parties shall make the Committee’s reports widely available to the public in their own countries. |
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| 1990 | ||||
Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights “Protocol of San Salvador” 1988, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 2. The States Parties to this Protocol agree that education should be directed towards the full development of the human personality and human dignity and should strengthen respect for human rights, ideological pluralism, fundamental freedoms, justice and peace. They further agree that education ought to enable everyone to participate effectively in a democratic and pluralistic society and achieve a decent existence and should foster understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations and all racial, ethnic or religious groups and promote activities for the maintenance of peace. |
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| 1988 | ||||
Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights “Protocol of San Salvador” 1988, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | Every child, whatever his parentage, has the right to the protection that his status as a minor requires from his family, society and the State. Every child has the right to grow under the protection and responsibility of his parents; save in exceptional, judicially-recognized circumstances, a child of young age ought not to be separated from his mother. Every child has the right to free and compulsory education, at least in the elementary phase, and to continue his training at higher levels of the educational system. |
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| 1988 | ||||
Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors 1994, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | Have agreed upon the following: |
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| 1994 | ||||
Inter-American Convention On The Prevention, Punishment And Eradication Of Violence Against Women "Convention Of Belem Do Para" 1994, para. h | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | The States Parties agree to undertake progressively specific measures, including programs: h. to ensure research and the gathering of statistics and other relevant information relating to the causes, consequences and frequency of violence against women, in order to assess the effectiveness of measures to prevent, punish and eradicate violence against women and to formulate and implement the necessary changes; and |
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| 1994 | ||||
European Social Charter (Revised) 1996, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right to social security, the Parties undertake:
3. to endeavour to raise progressively the system of social security to a higher level; |
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| 1996 | ||||
European Social Charter (Revised) 1996, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right to social security, the Parties undertake:
4. to take steps, by the conclusion of appropriate bilateral and multilateral agreements or by other means, and subject to the conditions laid down in such agreements, in order to ensure:
a. equal treatment with their own nationals of the nationals of other Parties in respect of social security rights, including the retention of benefits arising out of social security legislation, whatever movements the persons protected may undertake between the territories of the Parties;
b. the granting, maintenance and resumption of social security rights by such means as the accumulation of insurance or employment periods completed under the legislation of each of the Parties. |
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| 1996 | ||||
European Social Charter (Revised) 1996, para. c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right to equal opportunities and equal treatment in matters of employment and occupation without discrimination on the grounds of sex, the Parties undertake to recognise that right and to take appropriate measures to ensure or promote its application in the following fields:
c. terms of employment and working conditions, including remuneration; |
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| 1996 | ||||
European Social Charter (Revised) 1996, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | With a view to ensuring the exercise of the right to equality of opportunity and treatment for men and women workers with family responsibilities and between such workers and other workers, the Parties undertake:
2. to provide a possibility for either parent to obtain, during a period after maternity leave, parental leave to take care of a child, the duration and conditions of which should be determined by national legislation, collective agreements or practice; |
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| 1996 | ||||
European Social Charter (Revised) 1996, para. b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right of workers' representatives to carry out their functions, the Parties undertake to ensure that in the undertaking:
b. they are afforded such facilities as may be appropriate in order to enable them to carry out their functions promptly and efficiently, account being taken of the industrial relations system of the country and the needs, size and capabilities of the undertaking concerned. |
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| 1996 | ||||
European Social Charter (Revised) 1996, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | The implementation of the legal obligations contained in this Charter shall be submitted to the same supervision as the European Social Charter. |
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| 1996 | ||||
Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors 1994, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | The authentication or similar formalities otherwise required shall be unnecessary when requests for cooperation encompassed by this Convention are transmitted via consular or diplomatic channels or via the Central Authorities, and when conveyed directly from one tribunal to another in the border area of the States Parties. No authentication in the requesting State Party shall be required in the case of related documents returned via the same channels.
Where necessary, the requests shall be translated into the official language or languages of the State Party to which they are addressed. With respect to attachments, a translation of the summary of the essential information shall suffice. |
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| 1994 | ||||
European Social Charter (Revised) 1996, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right of migrant workers and their families to protection and assistance in the territory of any other Party, the Parties undertake:
2. to adopt appropriate measures within their own jurisdiction to facilitate the departure, journey and reception of such workers and their families, and to provide, within their own jurisdiction, appropriate services for health, medical attention and good hygienic conditions during the journey; |
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| 1996 | ||||
European Social Charter (Revised) 1996, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right to housing, the Parties undertake to take measures designed:
2. to prevent and reduce homelessness with a view to its gradual elimination; |
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| 1996 | ||||
African Youth Charter 2006, para. e | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | RECALLING the historic injustices imposed on Africa such as slavery, colonization, depletion of natural resources and taking into account the firm will of African peoples for self-determination and the economic integration of Africa; |
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| 2006 | ||||
Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors 1994, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | In any proceeding provided for under this chapter, the competent authority may order the person or organization responsible for international traffic in minors to pay the costs and expenses of locating and returning the minor if such person or organization is a party to the proceeding.
A person or authority lodging a request for the return or, where applicable, the competent authority may bring a civil action to recover costs, including legal fees and the expenses of locating and returning the minor, unless said costs were already assessed in a criminal proceeding or a proceeding under this chapter.
The competent authority or any injured person or authority may bring a civil action for damages against the persons or organizations responsible for the international traffic in minors involving the minor. |
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| 1994 | ||||
Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors 1994, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | If a State has two or more territorial units in which different systems of law apply in relation to the matters dealt with in this Convention, it may, at the time of signature, ratification or accession, declare that this Convention shall extend to all its territorial units or to only one or more of them.
Such declaration may be modified by subsequent declarations, which shall expressly indicate the territorial unit or units to which the Convention applies. Such subsequent declarations shall be transmitted to the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States, and shall become effective ninety days after the date of their receipt. |
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| 1994 | ||||
Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors 1994, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | This Convention shall be open to signature by the member states of the Organization of American States. |
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| 1994 | ||||
SAARC Convention on Regional Arrangements for the Promotion of Child Welfare in South Asia 2002, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation | Legally binding | Regional treaty | Recognising basic services such as education, health care, with special attention to the prevention of diseases and malnutrition, as the cornerstone of child survival and development, States Parties shall pursue a policy of development and a National Programme of Action that facilitate the development of the child. The policy shall focus on accelerating the progressive universalization of the child's access to the basic services and conditions. |
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| 2002 | ||||
European Social Charter (Revised) 1996, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right of elderly persons to social protection, the Parties undertake to adopt or encourage, either directly or in co-operation with public or private organisations, appropriate measures designed in particular:
– to enable elderly persons to remain full members of society for as long as possible, by means of:
a. adequate resources enabling them to lead a decent life and play an active part in public, social and cultural life;
b. provision of information about services and facilities available for elderly persons and their opportunities to make use of them;
– to enable elderly persons to choose their life-style freely and to lead independent lives in their familiar surroundings for as long as they wish and are able, by means of:
a. provision of housing suited to their needs and their state of health or of adequate support for adapting their housing;
b. the health care and the services necessitated by their state;
– to guarantee elderly persons living in institutions appropriate support, while respecting their privacy, and participation in decisions concerning living conditions in the institution. |
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| 1996 | ||||
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa 2003, para. a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | States Parties shall prohibit and condemn all forms of harmful practices which negatively affect the human rights of women and which are contrary to recognised international standards. States Parties shall take all necessary legislative and other measures to eliminate such practices, including: creation of public awareness in all sectors of society regarding harmful practices through information, formal and informal education and outreach programmes; |
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| 2003 | ||||
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 1h | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 1. Every State Parties shall develop a comprehensive and coherent national youth policy.
h) The policy shall be adopted by parliament and enacted into law; |
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| 2006 | ||||
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 1k | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 1. Every State Parties shall develop a comprehensive and coherent national youth policy.
k) Such a programme of action shall be accompanied by adequate and sustained budgetary allocation. |
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| 2006 | ||||
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 3b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 3. States Parties shall: b) Promote the development of youth media for the dissemination of information to young people; |
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| 2006 | ||||
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 3c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 3. States Parties shall: c) Encourage international co-operation in the production, exchange and dissemination of information from both national and international sources that are of economic, social and cultural value to youth; |
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| 2006 | ||||
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 1. Every young person shall have the right to participate in all spheres of society. |
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| 2006 | ||||
African Youth Charter 2006, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | Nothing in this Charter shall be taken as minimising higher standards and values contained in other relevant human rights instruments ratified by States concerned or rational law or policies. |
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| 2006 | ||||
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa 2003, para. d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | States Parties shall adopt and enforce legislative and other measures to guarantee women equal opportunities in work and career advancement and other economic opportunities. In this respect, they shall: d) guarantee women the freedom to choose their occupation, and protect them from exploitation by their employers violating and exploiting their fundamental rights as recognised and guaranteed by conventions, laws and regulations in force; |
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| 2003 | ||||
African Youth Charter 2006, para. a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | Every young person shall have responsibilities towards his family and society, the State, and the international community. Youth shall have the duty to: a) Become the custodians of their own development; |
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| 2006 | ||||
African Youth Charter 2006, para. b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | Every young person shall have responsibilities towards his family and society, the State, and the international community. Youth shall have the duty to: b) Protect and work for family life and cohesion; |
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| 2006 | ||||
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 4p | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 4. States Parties shall take all appropriate measures with a view to achieving full realisation of this right and shall, in particular: p) Adopt preferential recruitment policies for African youth with specialised skills amongst States Parties. |
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| 2006 | ||||
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 2c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 2. States Parties shall take the following measures to promote active youth participation in society: They shall: c) Ensure equal access to young men and young women to participate in decision-making and in fulfilling civic duties; |
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| 2006 | ||||
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. j | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | In this Charter, unless otherwise stated, the following expressions shall have the following meaning: “NEPAD” means the New Partnership for Africa’s Development; |
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| 2007 | ||||
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | The objectives of this Charter are to: Promote adherence, by each State Party, to the universal values and principles of democracy and respect for human rights; |
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| 2007 | ||||
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa 2003, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS: |
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| 2003 | ||||
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa 2003, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 2. States Parties shall commit themselves to modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of women and men through public education, information, education and communication strategies, with a view to achieving the elimination of harmful cultural and traditional practices and all other practices which are based on the idea of the inferiority or the superiority of either of the sexes, or on stereotyped roles for women and men. |
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| 2003 | ||||
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. e | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | In this Charter, unless otherwise stated, the following expressions shall have the following meaning: “Commission” means the Commission of the Union; |
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| 2007 | ||||
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. f | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | In this Charter, unless otherwise stated, the following expressions shall have the following meaning: “Constitutive Act” means the Constitutive Act of the Union; |
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| 2007 | ||||
Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings 2005, para. g | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | Bearing in mind the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1950) and its protocols; |
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| 2005 | ||||
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | State Parties shall implement this Charter in accordance with the following principles: Separation of powers; |
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| 2007 | ||||
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | State Parties shall implement this Charter in accordance with the following principles: Promotion of gender equality in public and private institutions; |
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| 2007 | ||||
Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings 2005, para. j | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | Bearing in mind the European Union Council Framework Decision of 19 July 2002 on combating trafficking in human beings the European Union Council Framework Decision of 15 March 2001 on the standing of victims in criminal proceedings and the European Union Council Directive of 29 April 2004 on the residence permit issued to third-country nationals who are victims of trafficking in human beings or who have been the subject of an action to facilitate illegal immigration, who cooperate with the competent authorities; |
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| 2005 | ||||
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | State Parties shall ensure that the process of amendment or revision of their constitution reposes on national consensus, obtained if need be, through referendum. |
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| 2007 | ||||
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | State Parties shall protect the right to equality before the law and equal protection by the law as a fundamental precondition for a just and democratic society. |
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| 2007 | ||||
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | State Parties shall commit themselves to promote democracy, the principle of the rule of law and human rights. |
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| 2007 | ||||
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | State Parties shall establish public institutions that promote and support democracy and constitutional order. |
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| 2007 | ||||
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | State Parties shall ensure that the independence or autonomy of the said institutions is guaranteed by the constitution. |
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| 2007 | ||||
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | State Parties shall ensure that these institutions are accountable to competent national organs. |
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| 2007 | ||||
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | State Parties shall recognize the crucial role of women in development and strengthening of democracy. |
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| 2007 | ||||
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | State Parties shall promote citizen participation in the development process through appropriate structures. |
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| 2007 | ||||
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | State Parties shall promote participation of social groups with special needs, including the Youth and people with disabilities, in the governance process. |
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| 2007 | ||||
Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings 2005, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 1. Each Party shall provide in its internal law a recovery and reflection period of at least 30 days, when there are reasonable grounds to believe that the person concerned is a victim. Such a period shall be sufficient for the person concerned to recover and escape the influence of traffickers and/or to take an informed decision on cooperating with the competent authorities. During this period it shall not be possible to enforce any expulsion order against him or her. This provision is without prejudice to the activities carried out by the competent authorities in all phases of the relevant national proceedings, and in particular when investigating and prosecuting the offences concerned. During this period, the Parties shall authorise the persons concerned to stay in their territory. |
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| 2005 | ||||
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | State Parties shall strive to institutionalize good political governance through: Strengthening the functioning and effectiveness of parliaments; |
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| 2007 | ||||
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | State Parties shall strive to institutionalize good political governance through: An independent judiciary; |
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| 2007 | ||||
Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse 2007, para. 1b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 1 Each Party shall take the necessary legislative or other measures to ensure that a legal person can be held liable for an offence established in accordance with this Convention, committed for its benefit by any natural person, acting either individually or as part of an organ of the legal person, who has a leading position within the legal person, based on:
(b) an authority to take decisions on behalf of the legal person; |
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| 2007 | ||||
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | The Peace and Security Council shall lift sanctions once the situation that led to the suspension is resolved. |
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| 2007 | ||||
Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse 2007, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 1 Each Party shall ensure, in accordance with its internal law, that persons subject to criminal proceedings for any of the offences established in accordance with this Convention may have access to the programmes or measures mentioned in Article 15, paragraph 1, under conditions which are neither detrimental nor contrary to the rights of the defence and to the requirements of a fair and impartial trial, and particularly with due respect for the rules governing the principle of the presumption of innocence. |
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| 2007 | ||||
Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse 2007, para. 1b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 1 Each Party shall take the necessary legislative or other measures to ensure that the following intentional conduct is criminalised:
(b) engaging in sexual activities with a child where:
– use is made of coercion, force or threats; or
– abuse is made of a recognised position of trust, authority or influence over the child, including within the family; or
– abuse is made of a particularly vulnerable situation of the child, notably because of a mental or physical disability or a situation of dependence. |
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| 2007 | ||||
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | State Parties shall strive to institutionalize good political governance through: Consolidating sustainable multiparty political systems; |
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| 2007 | ||||
Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse 2007, para. c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | Each Party shall take the necessary legislative or other measures to ensure that the following circumstances, in so far as they do not already form part of the constituent elements of the offence, may, in conformity with the relevant provisions of internal law, be taken into consideration as aggravating circumstances in the determination of the sanctions in relation to the offences established in accordance with this Convention:
(c) the offence was committed against a particularly vulnerable victim; |
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| 2007 | ||||
Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse 2007, para. d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | Each Party shall take the necessary legislative or other measures to ensure that the following circumstances, in so far as they do not already form part of the constituent elements of the offence, may, in conformity with the relevant provisions of internal law, be taken into consideration as aggravating circumstances in the determination of the sanctions in relation to the offences established in accordance with this Convention:
(d) the offence was committed by a member of the family, a person cohabiting with the child or a person having abused his or her authority; |
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| 2007 | ||||
Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse 2007, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | Each Party shall take the necessary legislative or other measures to criminalise the intentional proposal, through information and communication technologies, of an adult to meet a child who has not reached the age set in application of Article 18, paragraph 2, for the purpose of committing any of the offences established in accordance with Article 18, paragraph 1.a, or Article 20, paragraph 1.a, against him or her, where this proposal has been followed by material acts leading to such a meeting. |
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| 2007 | ||||
Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse 2007, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 5 Each Party may, at the time of signature or when depositing its instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, by a declaration addressed to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, declare that it reserves the right to limit the application of paragraph 4 of this article, with regard to offences established in accordance with Article 18, paragraph 1.b, second and third indents, to cases where its national has his or her habitual residence in its territory. |
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| 2007 | ||||
African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (Kampala Convention) 2009, para. 4b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | All persons have a right to be protected against arbitrary displacement. The prohibited categories of arbitrary displacement include but are not limited to: Individual or mass displacement of civilians in situations of armed conflict, unless the security of the civilians involved or imperative military reasons so demand, in accordance with international humanitarian law; |
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| 2009 | ||||
Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse 2007, para. 1b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 1 The Parties shall co-operate with each other, in accordance with the provisions of this Convention, and through the application of relevant applicable international and regional instruments, arrangements agreed on the basis of uniform or reciprocal legislation and internal laws, to the widest extent possible, for the purpose of:
(b) protecting and providing assistance to victims; |
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| 2007 | ||||
Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence 2011, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 2 A Party may, within the limits of its internal law, without prior request, forward to another Party information obtained within the framework of its own investigations when it considers that the disclosure of such information might assist the receiving Party in preventing criminal offences established in accordance with this Convention or in initiating or carrying out investigations or proceedings concerning such criminal offences or that it might lead to a request for co-operation by that Party under this chapter. |
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| 2011 | ||||
Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence 2011, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 2 GREVIO shall be composed of a minimum of 10 members and a maximum of 15 members, taking into account a gender and geographical balance, as well as multidisciplinary expertise. Its members shall be elected by the Committee of the Parties from among candidates nominated by the Parties for a term of office of four years, renewable once, and chosen from among nationals of the Parties. |
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| 2011 | ||||
Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence 2011, para. 4a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 4 The election of the members of GREVIO shall be based on the following principles:
(a) they shall be chosen according to a transparent procedure from among persons of high moral character, known for their recognised competence in the fields of human rights, gender equality, violence against women and domestic violence, or assistance to and protection of victims, or having demonstrated professional experience in the areas covered by this Convention; |
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| 2011 | ||||
Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence 2011, para. 10 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 10 GREVIO shall prepare a draft report containing its analysis concerning the implementation of the provisions on which the evaluation is based, as well as its suggestions and proposals concerning the way in which the Party concerned may deal with the problems which have been identified. The draft report shall be transmitted for comments to the Party which undergoes the evaluation. Its comments shall be taken into account by GREVIO when adopting its report. |
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| 2011 | ||||
Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence 2011, para. 11 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 11 On the basis of all the information received and the comments by the Parties, GREVIO shall adopt its report and conclusions concerning the measures taken by the Party concerned to implement the provisions of this Convention. This report and the conclusions shall be sent to the Party concerned and to the Committee of the Parties. The report and conclusions of GREVIO shall be made public as from their adoption, together with eventual comments by the Party concerned. |
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| 2011 | ||||
Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence 2011, para. 12 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 12 Without prejudice to the procedure of paragraphs 1 to 8, the Committee of the Parties may adopt, on the basis of the report and conclusions of GREVIO, recommendations addressed to this Party (a) concerning the measures to be taken to implement the conclusions of GREVIO, if necessary setting a date for submitting information on their implementation, and (b) aiming at promoting co-operation with that Party for the proper implementation of this Convention. |
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| 2011 | ||||
Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence 2011, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 1 Any proposal for an amendment to this Convention presented by a Party shall be communicated to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe and forwarded by her or him to the member States of the Council of Europe, any signatory, any Party, the European Union, any State invited to sign this Convention in accordance with the provisions of Article 75, and any State invited to accede to this Convention in accordance with the provisions of Article 76. |
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| 2011 | ||||
Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence 2011, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 1 After the entry into force of this Convention, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe may, after consultation of the Parties to this Convention and obtaining their unanimous consent, invite any non-member State of the Council of Europe, which has not participated in the elaboration of the Convention, to accede to this Convention by a decision taken by the majority provided for in Article 20.d of the Statute of the Council of Europe, and by unanimous vote of the representatives of the Parties entitled to sit on the Committee of Ministers. |
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| 2011 | ||||
Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. xiv | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | The states undertake to prevent, eliminate, prohibit, and punish, in accordance with their constitutional norms and the provisions of this Convention, all acts and manifestations of discrimination and intolerance, including:
xiv. The restriction or limitation, based on any of the criteria set forth in Article 1.1 of this Convention, of the right of every person to access and sustainably use water, natural resources, ecosystems, biodiversity, and ecological services that are part of each state’s natural heritage, protected by the relevant international instruments and their own national laws; |
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| 2013 | ||||
Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence 2011, para. d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | Having regard to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966), the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966), the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women ("CEDAW", 1979) and its Optional Protocol (1999) as well as General Recommendation No. 19 of the CEDAW Committee on violence against women, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) and its Optional Protocols (2000) and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006); |
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| 2011 | ||||
Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence 2011, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | Have agreed as follows: |
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| 2011 | ||||
Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence 2011, para. a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | For the purpose of this Convention:
(a) “violence against women” is understood as a violation of human rights and a form of discrimination against women and shall mean all acts of gender-based violence that result in, or are likely to result in, physical, sexual, psychological or economic harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life; |
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| 2011 | ||||
ICMW - International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1990, para. 3b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations General Assembly | Legally binding | International treaty | [3. The Committee shall not consider any communication from an individual under the present article unless it has ascertained that:] (b) The individual has exhausted all available domestic remedies; this shall not be the rule where, in the view of the Committee, the application of the remedies is unreasonably prolonged or is unlikely to bring effective relief to that individual. |
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| 1990 | ||||
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court | Legally binding | International treaty | Mindful that during this century millions of children, women and men have been victims of unimaginable atrocities that deeply shock the conscience of humanity, |
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| 1998 | ||||
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998, para. 2g | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court | Legally binding | International treaty | 2. For the purpose of paragraph 1: (g) "Persecution" means the intentional and severe deprivation of fundamental rights contrary to international law by reason of the identity of the group or collectivity; |
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| 1998 | ||||
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (Banjul Charter) 1981, para. c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of African Unity | Legally binding | Regional treaty | Considering the Charter of the Organisation of African Unity, which stipulates that “freedom, equality, justice and dignity are essential objectives for the achievement of the legitimate aspirations of the African peoples”; |
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| 1981 | ||||
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (Banjul Charter) 1981, para. e | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of African Unity | Legally binding | Regional treaty | Taking into consideration the virtues of their historical tradition and the values of African civilization which should inspire and characterize their reflection on the concept of human and peoples’ rights; |
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| 1981 | ||||
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (Banjul Charter) 1981, para. g | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of African Unity | Legally binding | Regional treaty | Considering that the enjoyment of rights and freedoms also implies the performance of duties on the part of everyone; |
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| 1981 | ||||
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (Banjul Charter) 1981, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of African Unity | Legally binding | Regional treaty | All peoples shall have the right to their economic, social and cultural development with due regard to their freedom and identity and in the equal enjoyment of the common heritage of mankind. |
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| 1981 | ||||
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (Banjul Charter) 1981, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of African Unity | Legally binding | Regional treaty | States shall have the duty, individually or collectively, to ensure the exercise of the right to development. |
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| 1981 | ||||
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (Banjul Charter) 1981, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of African Unity | Legally binding | Regional treaty | Every individual may freely take part in the cultural life of his community. |
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| 1981 | ||||
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (Banjul Charter) 1981, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of African Unity | Legally binding | Regional treaty | In case of an equality of votes, the Chairman shall have a casting vote. |
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| 1981 | ||||
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (Banjul Charter) 1981, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of African Unity | Legally binding | Regional treaty | Every individual shall have duties towards his family and society, the State and other legally recognised communities and the international community. |
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| 1981 | ||||
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (Banjul Charter) 1981, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of African Unity | Legally binding | Regional treaty | A Communication shall be considered by the Commission if a simple majority of its members so decide. |
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| 1981 | ||||
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (Banjul Charter) 1981, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of African Unity | Legally binding | Regional treaty | [Communications relating to Human and Peoples’ rights referred to in Article 55 received by the Commission, shall be considered if they:] Indicate their authors even if the latter requests anonymity, |
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| 1981 | ||||
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (Banjul Charter) 1981, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of African Unity | Legally binding | Regional treaty | [The individual shall also have the duty:] To preserve the harmonious development of the family and to work for the cohesion and respect of the family; to respect his parents at all times, to maintain them in case of need. |
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| 1981 | ||||
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (Banjul Charter) 1981, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of African Unity | Legally binding | Regional treaty | [The individual shall also have the duty:] To serve his national community by placing his physical and intellectual abilities at its service; |
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| 1981 | ||||
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (Banjul Charter) 1981, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of African Unity | Legally binding | Regional treaty | [The individual shall also have the duty:] Not to compromise the security of the State whose national or resident he is; |
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| 1981 | ||||
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (Banjul Charter) 1981, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of African Unity | Legally binding | Regional treaty | [The individual shall also have the duty:] To preserve and strengthen social and national solidarity, particularly when the latter is strengthened; |
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| 1981 | ||||
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (Banjul Charter) 1981, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of African Unity | Legally binding | Regional treaty | While transmitting its report, the Commission may make to the Assembly of Heads of State and Government such recommendations as it deems useful. |
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| 1981 | ||||
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (Banjul Charter) 1981, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of African Unity | Legally binding | Regional treaty | The Secretary General of the Organisation of African Unity shall inform members of the Organisation of the deposit of each instrument of ratification or adherence. |
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| 1981 | ||||
Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | The undersigned Plenipotentiaries of the Governments represented at the Diplomatic Conference held at Geneva from April 21 to August 12, 1949, for the purpose of revising the Xth Hague Convention of October 18, 1907 for the Adaptation to Maritime Warfare of the Principles of the Geneva Convention of 1906, have agreed as follows: |
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| 1949 | ||||
Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art 30. The vessels described in Articles 22, 24, 25 and 27 shall afford relief and assistance to the wounded, sick and shipwrecked without distinction of nationality. The High Contracting Parties undertake not to use these vessels for any military purpose. Such vessels shall in no wise hamper the movements of the combatants. During and after an engagement, they will act at their own risk. |
| 1949 | |||||
Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | International Committee of the Red Cross | Legally binding | International treaty | Art 61. The situations provided for in Articles 2 and 3 shall give immediate effect to ratifications deposited and accessions notified by the Parties to the conflict before or after the beginning of hostilities or occupation. The Swiss Federal Council shall communicate by the quickest method any ratifications or accessions received from Parties to the conflict. |
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| 1949 |