Treaties
Australian Treaties Library
The Australian Treaties Library is a freely available Internet service providing public access to treaty information relating to Australia. The Library is built on a fully searchable web database including treaty texts, indexes, status lists and explanatory material in HTML format. The service is hosted by AustLII, the Australasian Legal Information Institute in collaboration with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade who provide and verify the source materials.
WIPO administered treaties
Section of the official World Intellectual Property Organisation website, publishing treaties and conventions administered by the Organisation, including the convention establishing WIPO, WIPO copyright treaty, Paris Convention, Berne Convention, Rome Convention, Madrid Agreement and Locarno Agreement. The collection is organised into three groups including intellectual property protection treaties, global protection system treaties and classification treaties which create the classification systems that organise information relating to inventions, trademarks and industrial designs etc.
Council of Europe Conventions
Online version of the Council of Europe Treaty Series (CETS), formerly 'European Treaty Series' (ETS), and other Council of Europe treaty information. The site provides all the conventions and agreements prepared and negotiated within the institutional framework of the CoE, together with summaries and explanatory reports. It gives information on the preparation and legal status of treaties and the treaty-making process and provides a glossary.
Founding agreements
Chan Robles Virtual Law Library
Online law library compiled by Chan Robles, a law firm in the Philippines. Provides Philippines legislation, decisions of the Philippines Supreme Court (1901 onwards), treaties involving the Philippines and several versions of the Constitution of the Philippines. Many of the documents are in html format and do not seem to be official texts. The site also has links to educational, professional and reference resources worldwide. The site is in English.
United Nations Treaty Collection
The United Nations Treaty Collection provides free access to a wealth of information about international treaties covering a wide range of subject areas including international human rights, international law, international security, human rights, refugees. It can be used to download full text treaties and check for the latest information on whether certain treaties are in force.
Avalon Project : the Covenant of the League of Nations
The Covenant of the League of Nations is provided here by the Avalon Project at Yale University. The text includes amendments adopted up to December 1924.
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.
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer
This convention was the first general treaty for the protection of the ozone layer. Published in 2001 by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), it is available on the website of the Ozone Secretariat (Secretariat for the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and for the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer).