| Multilateral Treaty | Date of Entry into Force | Date Signed | Date of Ratification, Accession (A), Succession (d), Acceptance (a) | Status of
Ratification (r), Signatory (s), Party (p), Acceptance (a) |
| Charter of the
United Nations
and the Statute
of the
International
Court of
Justice(1)
(annexed to the UN Charter) |
1945 Oct. 24 | 1945 June 26 | 1945 Oct. 11 | 185 countries |
| Amendments to Articles 23, 27 and 61 of the Charter of the United Nations | 1965 Aug. 31 | 1964 Nov. 9 | 108 (r) | |
| Amendment to Article 109 of the United Nations Charter | 1968 June 12 | 1967 Oct. 2 | 93 (r) | |
| Amendment to Article 61 of the United Nations Charter | 24 Sept. 1973 | 1972 14 Nov. | 107 (r) | |
| Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations | For each State. On the date of deposit of its instrument of accession | 1947 Oct. 28 (A) | 137 (p) | |
| Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies | For each State and in respect of each specialized agency indicated in its instrument of accession or in a subsequent notification | 1950 (A) Mar
20(2)
1958 May 21(3) 1959 Mar 12(4) 1961 Jan 13(5) |
103 (p) | |
| Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations | 1964 Apr 24 | 1961 Oct 20 | 1965 Nov 15 | 61 (s)
177 (p) |
| Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations concerning Acquisition of Nationality | 1964 Apr 24 | 1961 Oct 20 | 1965 Nov 15 | 19 (s)
48 (p) |
| Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes | 1964 Apr 24 | 1961 Oct 20 | 1965 Nov 15 | 30 (s)
61 (p) |
| Vienna Convention on Consular Relations | 1967 June 8 | 1963 Apr 24 | 1965 Nov 15 | 49 (s)
156 (p) |
| Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations Concerning Acquisition of Nationality | 1967 Mar 19 | 1965 Nov 15 (a) | 18 (s)
36 (p) | |
| Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes | 19 Mar 1967 | 1963 Apr 24 | 1965 Nov 15 | 38 (s)
44 (p) |
| Convention on Special Missions | 1985 Jun 21 | 1969 Dec 16 | 1976 Nov 26 | 13 (s)
30 (p) |
| Optional Protocol to the Convention on Special Missions concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes | 1985 Jun 21 | 1969 Dec 16 | 1976 Nov 1976 | 9 (s)
13 (p) |
| Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide | 1951 Jan 12 | 1948 Dec 11 | 1950 Jul 7(6) | 42 (s)
122 (p) |
| International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination | 1969 Jan 4 | 1966 Mar 7 | 1967 Sept 15 | 76 (s)
148 (p) |
| International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights | 1976 Jan 3 | 1966 Dec 19 | 1974 Jun 7 | 59 (s)
135 (p) |
| International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights | 1976 Mar 23 | 1966 Dec 19 | 1986 Oct 23(7) | 58 (s)
136 (p) |
| Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights | 1976 Mar 23 | 1966 Dec 19 | 1989 Aug 22 | 26 (s)
89 (p) |
| Convention on the non-applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity | 1970 Nov 11 | 1973 May 15 | 10 (s)
43 (p) | |
| International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid | 1976 Jul 18 | 1974 May 2 | 1978 Jan 26 | 32 (s)
100 (p) |
| Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women | 1981 Sept 3 | 1980 Jul 15 | 1981 Aug 5 | 97 (s)
154 (p) |
| Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhumane or Degrading Treatment or Punishment | 1987 Jun 26 | 1986 Jun 18 | 65 (s)
101 (p) | |
| Amendments to articles (17) and 18 (5) of the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhumane or Degrading Treatment or Punishment | not yet in force | 1996 Nov 27 | 20 (A) | |
| International Convention Against Apartheid in Sports | 1988 Apr 3 | 1986 May 16 | 1987 Jul 27 | 73 (s)
57 (p) |
| Convention on the Rights of the Child | 1990 Sept 2 | 1990 Jan 26 | 1990 Aug 21 | 140 (s)
188 (p) |
| International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of all Migrant Workers and Members of their Families | not yet in force | 1993 Nov 15 | 1995 Jul 5 | 4 (s)
8 (p) |
| Constitution of the International Refugee Organization | 1948 Aug 20 | 1946 Dec 18 | 17 (s)
18 (p) | |
| Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees | 1954 Apr 22 | 1981 Jul 22 (a)(8) | 20 (s)
128 (p) | |
| Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees | 1967 Oct 4 | 1981 Jul 22 | 128 (p) | |
| Protocol Amending the Agreements, Conventions and Protocols on Narcotic Drugs, Concluded at The Hague on 23 Jan at geneva on 11 Feb 1925 and 19 Feb 1925 and 13 Jul 1931 at Bangkok on 27 Nov 1931 and at Geneva on 26 Jun 1936 | 1946 Dec 11 | 1946 Dec 11 | 1950 May 25 | 25 (s)
62 (p) |
| International Opium Convention | 1959 Sep 30 (d) | |||
| Convention for Limiting the Manufacture and Regulating the Distribution of Narcotic Drugs | 1947 Nov 21 | 1950 May 25 | ||
| Protocol bringing under the International Control Drugs Outside the Scope of the Convention of 13 July 1931 for Limiting the Manufacture and regulating | 1949 Dec 1 | 1949 Mar 10 | 1953 Dec 7 | 40 (s)
87 (p) |
| Protocol for Limiting and Regulating the Cultivation of the Poppy Plant, the Production of, International and Wholesale Trade in, and Use of Opium | 1963 Mar 8 | 1953 Jun 23 | 1955 Jun 1 | 33 (s)
49 (p) |
| Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 | 1964 Dec 13 | 1961 Mar 30 | 1967 Oct 2 | 62 (s)
138 (p) |
| Convention on Psychotropic Substances | 1976 Aug 16 | 1974 Jun 7 (A) | 35 (s)
147 (p) | |
| Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 | 1975 Aug 8 | 1972 Mar 25 | 1974 Jun 7 | 55 (s)
105 (p) |
| Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, as amended by the Protocol of 25 Mar 1972 amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 | 1975 Aug 8 | 1974 Jun 7(9) | 142 (p) | |
| United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances | 1990 Nov 11 | 1988 Dec 20 | 1996 Jun 7(10) | 88 (s)
139 (p) |
| Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women of Full age, concluded at Geneva on 11 Oct 1933 and amended by the Protocol, signed at Lake Success, New York, on 12 Nov 1947 | 1950 Apr 24 | 1954 Sep 30 | 31 (p) | |
| Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in persons and of the exploitation of the prostitution of others | 1951 Jul 25 | 1950 Dec 20 | 1952 Sep 19 | 14 (s)
71 (p) |
| Final Protocol to the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in persons and of the exploitation of the prostitution of others | 1951 Jul 25 | 1950 Dec 20 | 1952 Sep 19 | 14 (s)
34 (p) |
| Constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO) | 1948 Apr 7 | 1946 Jul 22 | 1948 Jul 9 | 60 (s)
190 (p) |
| Amendments to articles 24 and 25 of the Constitution of WHO | 1960 Oct 25 | 1960 Mar 20 (a) | 117 (a) | |
| Amendments to article 7 of the Constitution of WHO | not yet in force | 1967 Nov 20 (a) | 52 (a) | |
| Amendments to articles 24 and 25 of the Constitution of WHO | 1975 May 21 | 1971 Nov 10 (a) | 136 (a) | |
| Amendments to articles 34 and 55 of the Constitution of WHO | 1977 Feb 3 | 1976 Sep 17 (a) | 147 (a) | |
| Amendments to articles 24 and 25 of the Constitution of WHO | 1984 Jan 20 | 198 Oct 7 (a) | 139 (a) | |
| Amendments to articles 24 and 25 of the Constitution of WHO | 1994 Jul 11 | 1989 Mar 16 (a) | 136 (a) | |
| Protocol concerning the Office International D'Hygeine Publique | 1947 Oct 20 | 1946 Jul 22 (definitive) | 43 (s)
55 (p) | |
| Agreement on the establishment of the International Vaccine Institute | not yet in force | 1996 Nov 5 | 17 (s)
1 (p) | |
| General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, with Annexes and Schedules of Tariffs Concessions | Applied provisionally as from 1 Jan 1948 | 126 (p) | ||
| Agreement establishing the Asian Development Bank | 1966 Aug 22 | 1965 Dec 4 | 1966 Jul 5(11) | 31 (s)
48 (p) |
| Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development | 1977 Nov 30 | 1977 Jan 5 | 1977 Apr 4 | 80 (s)
158 (p) |
| Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization | 1985 Jun 21 | 1979 Oct 12 | 1980 Jan 7 | 135 (s)
167 (p) |
| Charter of the Asian and Pacific Development Centre | 1983 Jul 1 | 1982 Dec 15 (definitive signature) | 3 (s)
18 (p) | |
| United Nations Convention on the Liability of Operators of Transport Terminals in International Trade | not yet in force | 1991 Apr 19 | 5 (s)
1 (p) | |
| Agreement to establish the South Centre | 1995 Jul 30 | 1994 Oct 13 | 1996 Jun 14 | 40 (s)
22 (p) |
| Convention concerning customs facilities for touring | 1957 Sep 11 | 1954 Jun 4 | 1960 Feb 4 | 32 (s)
77 (p) |
| Additional Protocol to the Convention concerning customs facilities for touring, relating to the importation of tourist publicity documents and material | 1956 Jun 28 | 1954 Jun 4 | 1960 Feb 9 | 25 (s)
71 (p) |
| Customs Convention on the temporary importation of private road vehicles | 1957 Dec 15 | 1954 Jun 4 | 1960 Feb 9 | 32 (s)
73 (p) |
| Convention on Road Traffic | 1952 Mar 26 | 1949 Sep 19 | 1952 Sep 15(12) | 20 (s)
90 (p) |
| Protocol concerning countries or territories at present occupied | 1952 Mar 26 | 1949 Sep 19 | 17 (s)
19 (p) | |
| Convention on Road Traffic | 1977 May 21 | 1968 Nov 8 | 1973 Dec 27 | 37 (s)
57 (p) |
| Convention on Road signs and signals | 1978 Jun 6 | 1968 Nov 8 | 1973 Dec 27 | 36 (s)
46 (p) |
| United Conventions on the Carriage of goods by sea, 1978 | 1992 Nov 1 | 1978 Jun 14 | 28 (s)
25 (p) | |
| Convention on the International Maritime Organization (IMO) | 1958 Mar 17 | 1964 Nov 9 (a) | 24 (s)
154 (p) | |
| Amendments to articles 17 and 18 of the Convention (IMO) | 1967 Oct 6 | 1966 Oct 31(13)
1966 Nov 2(14) |
87 (A) | |
| Amendment to article 28 of the Convention (IMO) | 1968 Nov 3 | 1966 Oct 31 | 1966 Nov 2 | 82 (A) |
| Amendments to the title and substantive provisions of the Convention (IMO) | 1982 May 22 | 1981 Nov 5(15)
1981 Nov 17(16) |
118 (A) | |
| Amendments to the Convention relating to the institutionalization of the Committee on technical cooperation in the Convention (IMO) | 1984 Nov 10 | 1981 Nov 5(17)
1981 Nov 17(18) |
117 (A) | |
| Amendments to articles 17, 18, 20 and 51 of the Convention | 1984 Nov 10 | 1983 Jul 1(19)
1983 Jul 11(20) |
119 (A) | |
| Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences | 1983 Oct 6 | 1974 Aug 2 | 1976 Mar 2 | 23 (s)
78 (p) |
| Agreement for facilitating the international circulation of visual and auditory materials of an educational, scientific and cultural character | 1954 Aug 12 | 1949 Dec 31 | 1952 Nov 13 (A) | 16 (s)
32 (p) |
| Agreement on the information of educational, scientific and cultural materials | 1952 May 21 | 1950 Nov 22 | 28 (s)
84 (p) | |
| International convention for the protection of performers, producers of phonograms and broadcasting organizations | 1964 May 18 | 1984 Jun 25 (A) | 26 (s)
52 (p) | |
| Convention for the protection of producers of phonograms against unauthorized duplication of their phonograms | 1973 Apr 18 | 1972 Apr 29 | 31 (s)
55 (p) | |
| International agreement for the establishment of the University of Peace | 1981 Apr 7 | 1984 Mar 20 (A) | 34 (p) | |
| Convention on the Political rights of women | 1954 Jul 7 | 1953 Sep 23 | 1957 Sep 12 | 47 (s)
108 (p) |
| Convention on consent to marriage, minimum age for marriage and registration of marriages | 1964 Dec 9 | 1963 Feb 5 | 1965 Jan 21(21) | 17 (s)
46 (p) |
| Slavery convention signed at Geneva on 25 Sept 1926 and amended by the Protocol done at the Headquarters of the United Nations, NY on 17 Dec 1953 | 1955 Jul 7 | 1955 Jul 12 (A) | 92 (p) | |
| Supplementary convention on the abolition of slavery, the slave trade, and institutions and practices similar to slavery | 1957 Apr 30 | 1964 Nov 17 ((A) | 36 (s)
115 (p) | |
| International convention against the taking of hostages | 1983 Jun 3 | 1980 May 2 | 1980 Oct 14 | 40 (s)
78 (p) |
| Convention on the prevention and punishment of crimes against internationally protected persons, including diplomatic agents | 1977 Feb 20 | 1976 Nov 26 | 26 (s)
92 (p) | |
| Convention on the safety on the United Nations and Associated Personnel | not yet in force | 1995 Feb 27 | 43 (s)
9 (p) | |
| Agreement establishing the Asian Coconut Community | 1969 Jul 30 | 1968 Dec 12 | 1969 Aug 26 | 6 (s)
7 (p) |
| Agreement establishing the Asian Rice Trade Fund | 1974 Dec 1 | 1981 Dec 15 (a) | 5 (s)
4 (p) | |
| Agreement establishing the common fund for commodities | 1989 Jun 19 | 1981 Feb 24 | 1981 May 13 | 119 (s)
106 (p) |
| International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1983 | 1985 Apr 1 | 1985 Mar 31 | 1985 Mar 31 (Provisional application) | 35 (s)
54 (p) |
| Terms of reference of the International Copper Study Group(22) | 1992 Jan 23 | 1992 Jan 13
(provisional
acceptance)
1993 Sep 10 (definitive acceptance) |
20 (p) | |
| International Sugar Agreement, 1992 | 1993 Jan 20 | 1996 Oct 23 (provisional application) | 1996 Nov 14 (a) | 26 (s)
34 (p) |
| International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1994 | 1997 Jan 1 | 1995 Sep 29
1996 Feb 26 (provisional application) |
49 (s)
43 (p) | |
| International Coffee Agreement, 1994 | Provisionally on 1 Oct 1994, and definitively, on 19 May 1995 | 1996 Feb 8 | 49 (s)
63 (p) | |
| Convention on the Recovery abroad of maintenance | 1957 May 25 | 1956 Jun 20 | 1968 Mar 21 | 25 (s)
55 (p) |
| United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) | 1994 Nov 16 | 1982 Dec 10(23) | 1984 May 8 | 158 (s)
110 (p) |
| Agreement relating to the implementation of Part XI of the UNCLOS of 10 Dec 1982 | Provisional application on 16 Nov 1994 | 1994 Nov 15
1994 Nov 16 (provisional application) |
|
79 (s)
71 (p) |
| Agreement for the implementation of the provisions of the UNCLOS of 10 Dec 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and highly Migratory Fish Stocks | not yet in force | 1996 Aug 30 | 59 (s)
7 (p) | |
| Convention on the recognition and enforcement for foreign arbitral awards | 1959 Jun 7 | 1958 Jun 10(24) | 1967 Jul 6 | 24 (s)
111 (p) |
| Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties | 1980 Jan 27 | 1969 May 23 | 1972 Nov 15 | 47 (s)
81 (p) |
| Agreement governing the activities of States on the Moon and other celestial bodies | 1984 Jul 11 | 1980 Apr 23 | 1981 May 26 | 11 (s)
9 (p) |
| Constitution of the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity | 1979 Feb 25 | 1976 oct 28 | 1977 Jun 17 | 18 (s)
33 (p) |
| Agreement establishing the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development | 1981 Mar 6 | 1977 Sep 12 | 14 (s)
19 (p) | |
| Convention on the prohibitions or restrictions on the use of certain conventional weapons which may be deemed to be excessively injurious or to have indiscriminate effects (and protocols) | 1983 Dec 2 | 1981 May 15 | 1996 Jul 15 | 51 (s)
63 (p) |
| Convention on the Prohibition of the development, production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons and on their destruction | 1997 Apr 29 | 1993 Jan 13 | 1996 Dec 11 | 160 (s)
67 (p) |
| Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban-Treaty | not yet in force | 1996 Sep 24 | 138 (s)
1 (p) | |
| Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer | 1988 Sep 22 | 1991 Jul 17 (A) | 28 (s)
163 (p) | |
| Montreal Protocol on Substances that deplete the Ozone Layer | 1989 Jan 1 | 1988 Sep 14 | 1991 Jul 17 | 46 (s)
161 (p) |
| Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the Ozone Layer | 1992 Aug 10 | 1993 Aug 9 | 113 (p) | |
| Basel Convention on the Control of transboundary movement of hazardous wastes and their disposal | 1992 May 5 | 1989 Mar 22 | 1993 Oct 21 | 53 (s)
108 (p) |
| United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change | 1994 Mar 21 | 1992 Jun 12 | 1994 Aug 2 | 166 (s)
164 (p) |
| Convention on biological diversity | 1993 Dec 29 | 1992 Jun 12 | 1993 Oct 8 | 168 (s)
165 (p) |
| United Nations Convention to combat desertification in those in those countries experiencing serious drought and/or desertification, particularly in Africa | 1996 Dec 26 | 1994 Dec 8 | 115 (s)
57 (p) | |
| International Convention for the Suppression of counterfeiting currency(25) | in force since Feb 22, 1931 | 1971 May 5 (A)(26) | ||
| Protocol to the International Convention for the suppression of counterfeiting currency | came into force at the same time as the Convention | 1871 May 5 (A) |
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1. RP made a declaration on 18 Nov. 1972 recognizing as compulsory the jurisdiction of the ICJ under article 36, para 2 of the Statute of the Court.
2. ILO, Fao, ICAO, UNESCO, IMF, IBRD, WHO
3. WMO
4. WHO (third revised text of annex VII)
5. IFC
6. RP signed with declaration/reservation
7. RP signed with declaration recognizing the competence of the Human Rights Committee under article 41
8. RP signed with declaration
9. Ratification or accession in respect of the Protocol of 25 Mar 1972 or participation upon deposit of an instrument of ratification or accession to the Convention of 1961
10. RP ratified with reservation.
11. RP ratified with declaration.
12. RP ratified with declaration.
13. Date of receipt of the instrument of acceptance (IMO)
14. Date of deposit of the instrument of acceptance (UN)
15. Date of receipt of the instrument of acceptance (IMO)
16. Date of deposit of the instrument of acceptance (UN)
17. Date of receipt of the instrument of acceptance (IMO)
18. Date of deposit of the instrument of acceptance (UN)
19. Date of receipt of the instrument of acceptance (IMO)
20. Date of deposit of the instrument of acceptance (UN)
21. RP ratified with declaration.
22. On 4 Dec 1995, the Philippine government notified the UN Secretary-General that it had decided to withdraw from the Terms of Reference as from 2 Feb 1996.
23. RP signed with declaration
24. RP signed ad referendum with the reservation that it does so on the basis of reciprocity.
25. League of Nations Multilateral Treaties
26. Philippine government ratified with reservation on articles 5 and 8 of the Convention.