treaties

Normative Action: UNESCO - Culture

This section of the UNESCO (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization) website focuses on conventions for the protection of cultural heritage, including non-UNESCO conventions. Full-text treaties and their protocols; drafts; preparatory working documents from committees and diplomatic conferences; and information about state signatories are provided. Information is also available about current activities and forthcoming events. The site is in English, French and Spanish. Links to related websites are provided.

ASIL Guide To Electronic Resources for International Law

A web guide comprising structured compilations of links to international law resources on the Internet. The guide is developed by the American Society of International Law. Web resources are the major focus, but coverage includes other electronic formats, such as online services, as appropriate. Also, comparisons to printed resources are made as necessary, either to explain better the advantages or disadvantages of a particular electronic resource, or to indicate that certain types of information are not yet available in an electronic format.

Avalon Project : the Inter-American System : Agreements, Conventions and Other Documents

This site forms part of the Avalon Project maintained by Yale University Law School. It provides access to a large number of full-text primary resource documents relating to international relations in the Inter-American system, encompassing Central America, Latin America, South America and the United states. These include the charter of the Organization of American States (OAS) 1948, extradition, solidarity and cooperation treaties. All material is arranged alphabetically.

Avalon Project : American Diplomacy : multilateral treaties and agreements

This site is maintained as part of Project Avalon which is organised by Yale University Law School. It offers access to the full-text of a large number of international treaties signed by the United States from 1863 to the present day. They include: the Hague Convention for the Settlement of International Disputes, the Geneva Convention for the Treatment of Prisoners of War and the 1944 Armistice Agreements which ended the second world war. The material is arranged alphabetically.

Avalon Project : the Barbary treaties 1786-1836

The Barbary Treaties were a series of nine agreements concluded by the United States and the Barbary nations of Morocco, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli, between 1786-1836. This site provides the text of most of these documents, taken from volumes 2 and 3 of 'Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States of America' (US Government Printing Office,1931). An introduction and notes to the treaties by the editor, Hunter Miller, are also available. The information is provided by the Avalon project at Yale University.

Avalon Project : Dayton Peace Accords

The Dayton Peace Accords sought to achieve a peaceful settlement to the Balkans conflict in 1995. They relate to the positions of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Croatia and Yugoslavia. This website, which is available as part of the Avalon Project maintained by Yale University, contains the text of the agreement and its appendixes. The appendixes include letters from Slobodan Milosevic and the US Department of State Dispatch.

Amsterdam Treaty: a Comprehensive Guide

This Guide is provided by the European Commission as part of its Summaries of Legislation website. It gives the background to and objectives of the Amsterdam Treaty which was signed by the European Union member states in October 1997, amending two of the EU's fundamental treaties, the Treaty Establishing the European Community and the Treaty on European Union. A number of key issues are covered, including the Treaty's bearing on international security, human rights, social policy, foreign policy, commercial policy and EU institutional reforms.

EUR-Lex

EUR-Lex is the European Union's own free database of legal and official texts, amounting to more than three million documents.

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