Database of UN Human Rights Agreement Ratifications

Jana von Stein (janavs@umich.edu)

Assistant Professor (Political Science) and Faculty Associate (Center for Political Studies), University of Michigan

Year	Agreement
1948	Convention on Freedom of Association and Right to Organize
1948	Genocide Convention
1949	Protocol I to Geneva Conventions
1949	Protocol II to Geneva Conventions
1949	Geneva Convention relative to Treatment of Prisoners of War
1949	Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilians in Time of War
1949	Convention on Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining
1949	Convention on Traffic in Persons
1951	Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
1951	Equal Remuneration Convention
1926	Protocol Amending Slavery Convention
1954	Convention Relating to Status of Stateless Persons
1956	Supplementary Convention on Slavery
1957	Convention on Abolition of Forced Labor
1958	Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention
1960	Convention Against Discrimination in Education
1961	Convention on Reduction of Statelessness
1962	Convention on Marriage
1964	Employment Policy Convention
1966	Convention on Elimination of Racial Discrimination*
1966	Covenant on Civil and Political Rights*
1966	Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights*
1966	Optional Protocol to ICCPR
1966	Protocol Relating to Status of Refugees
1968	Convention on Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes
1973	Minimum Age Convention
1979	Convention on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women*
1984	Convention Against Torture*
1989	2nd Optional Protocol to Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
1989	Convention on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples
1989	Convention on Mercenaries
1989	Convention on Rights of Child*
1990	Convention on Migrant Workers*
1999	Optional Protocol to CEDAW
1999	Worst Forms of Child Labor Conv.
2000	Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons
2000	Optional Protocol to Convention on Rights of Child (Armed Conflict)
2000	Optional Protocol to Convention on Rights of Child (Sale, Prostitution…)
2002	Optional Protocol to Convention Against Torture

*Core convention (as defined by the UN).