The following lists of web sites are provided as a service to the reader and nothing in these websites is deemed to represent the views of the U.S. Government unless otherwise stated. UN–Specific United Nations (http://www.un.org) Division for the Advancement of Women (http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw) Economic Commission for Africa (http://www.uneca.org) Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (http://www.escwa.org.lb) Electronic Mine Information Network (http://www.mineaction.org) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (http://www.ipcc.ch) International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (http://www.ictr.org) International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (http://www.un.org/ icty/index.html) International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (http://www.un–instraw.org) International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (http://www.unisdr.org) Joint UN Program on HIV/AIDS (http://www.unaids.org) Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/ hchr.htm) UN Development Fund for Women (http://www.unifem.org) UN Development Group (http://www.undg.org) UN Foundation (http://www.unfoundation.org) UN High Commissioner for Refugees/UN Refugee Agency (http://www.unhcr.ch) UN Internet Gateway to the Advancement and Empowerment of Women (http:// www.un.org/womenwatch/) UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (http://www.unicri.it) UN Office on Drugs and Crime (http://www.unodc.org) UN International Law Commission (http://www.un.org/law/ilc/index.htm) UN Office at Geneva (http://www.unog.ch) UN Office at Nairobi (http://www.unon.org) UN Office at Vienna (http://www.unvienna.org)
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (http://www.reliefweb.int/ocha_ol/) UN Secretary–General (http://www.un.org/news/ossg/sg/index.shtml) UN Volunteers (http://www.unv.org) International Organizations African Development Bank (http://www.afdb.org) African Union (http://www.africa–union.org) Amnesty International (http://www.amnesty.org) Asian Development Bank (http://www.adb.org) CARE International (http://www.care.org) Caribbean Community (http://www.caricom.org) Comprehensive Nuclear–Test–Ban Treaty Organization (http://www.ctbto.org) Council of Europe (http://www.coe.int) Economic Community of West African States (http://www.ecowas.int) European Union (http://europa.eu.int) Free–Trade Area of the Americas (http://www.ftaa–alca.org) Global Disaster Information Network (http://www.gdin.org) Global Fund for Women (http://www.globalfundforwomen.org) Greenpeace (http://www.greenpeace.org) Group of 77 (http://www.g77.org) Habitat for Humanity International (http://www.habitat.org) Human Rights Watch (http://www.hrw.org) Inter Parliamentary Union (http://www.ipu.org) International Committee of the Red Cross (http://www.icrc.org) International Court of Justice (http://www.icj-cij.org) International Foundation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (http://www.ifrc.org) International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) (http:// www.unidroit.org) International Monetary Fund (http://www.imf.org) International Organization for Migration (http://www.iom.int) International Seabed Authority (http://www.isa.org.jm) International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea (http://www.itlos.org) Interpol (http://www.interpol.int) League of Arab States (http://www.arableagueonline.org/arableague/index_en.jsp) NATO (http://www.nato.int) Natural Resources Defense Council (http://www.nrdc.org) Non–Aligned Movement (http://www.nam.gov.za) North American Free Trade Agreement Secretariat (NAFTA) (http://www.nafta– sec–alena.org) Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (http://www.oecd.org)
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Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (http://www.osce.org)
Organization of African Unity (see African Union)
Organization of American States (http://www.oas.org)
Organization of the Islamic Conference (http://www.oicun.org)
Pan American Health Organization (http://www.paho.org)
ReliefWeb (http://www.reliefweb.int)
Southern African Development Community (http://mbendi.co.za/orsadc.htm)
World Bank (http://www.worldbank.org)
World Conservation Union (http://www.iucn.org)
World Wildlife Fund (http://www.wwf.org)
World Tourism Organization (http://www.world–tourism.org)
Specialized U.S. Government Agency Sites CIA (http://www.cia.gov) FBI (http://www.fbi.gov) List of Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Governments (http://www.cia.gov/ cia/publications/chiefs/index.html) State Department (http://www.state.gov) U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) (http://www.usaid.gov) White House (http://www.whitehouse.gov) IO Missions Geneva (http://www.us–mission.ch/index.html)
New York (http://www.un.int/usa)
Rome (http://www.usembassy.it/usunrome)
Vienna (http://www.usun–vienna.usia.co.at)
Conferences 2nd UN Conference on Human Settlements [HABITAT II; Istanbul, Turkey; June 1996] (http://www.un.org/Conferences/habitat) 3rd UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries (Brussels, Belgium; May 2001] (http://www.unctad.org/conference/index.html) 2nd World Assembly on Ageing [Madrid, Spain; April 2002] (http://www.un.org/ ageing/coverage) UN Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects [New York, NY; July 2001] (http://disarmament.un.org/cab/smallarms) UN Fourth World Conference on Women [Beijing, China; September 1995] (http:/ /www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing/) UN International Conference on Financing for Development [Monterrey, Mexico; March 2002] (http://www.un.org/esa/ffd/) UN International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) (http:// www.iisd.ca/linkages/cairo.html) UN World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and
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Related Intolerance [Durban, South Africa; Aug./Sept. 2001] (http:// www.un.org/WCAR/coverage.htm) UN World Summit for Social Development [Copenhagen 1995] (http:// www.iisd.ca/linkages/wssd.html) UN World Summit on Sustainable Development [Johannesburg, South Africa; Aug./Sept. 2002] (http://www.johannesburgsummit.org) World Food Summit: Five Years Later [Rome, Italy; June 2002] (http:// www.fao.org/worldfoodsummit/english/index.html) Conventions 2nd Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights [aiming at the abolition of the death penalty] (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/ menu3/b/a_opt2.htm) Biological Weapons Convention (http://disarmament.un.org/wmd/bwc/ index.html) Chemical Weapons Convention (http://disarmament.un.org/wmd/cwc/index.html) Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (http://disarmament.un.org/wmd/ctbt/ index.html) Convention against Discrimination in Education (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/ menu3/b/d_c_educ.htm) Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/h_cat39.htm) Convention Concerning Discrimination in Respect of Employment and Occupation (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/d_ilo111.htm) Convention Concerning Employment Policy (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/ b/k_ilo122.htm) Convention Concerning Employment Promotion and Protection against Unemployment (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/k_ilo168.htm) Convention Concerning Equal Remuneration for Men and Women Workers for Work of Equal Value (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/d_ilo100.htm) Convention Concerning Forced Labor (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/ 31.htm) Convention Concerning Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/j_ilo87.htm) Convention Concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/62.htm) Convention Concerning the Abolition of Forced Labor (http://www.unhchr.ch/ html/menu3/b/32.htm) Convention Concerning Protection and Facilities to be Afforded to Workers’Representatives in the Undertaking (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/ j_ilo135.htm) Convention Concerning Protection of the Right to Organize and Procedures for Determining Conditions of Employment in the Public Service (http:// www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/j_ilo151.htm Convention Concerning the Application of the Principles of Right to Organize and
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to Bargain Collectively (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/j_ilo98.htm) Convention Concerning the Promotion of Collective Borrowing (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/k_ilo154.htm) Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/33.htm) Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation [Montreal Convention] (http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/ terrorism_convention_civil_aviation.html) Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation (http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/ terrorism_convention_maritime_navigation.html) Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft (http:// www.unodc.org/unodc/en/terrorism_convention_aircraft_seizure.html) Convention on Biological Diversity (http://www.biodiv.org/convention/articles.asp) Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage, and Registration of Marriages (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/63.htm) Convention on Fishing and Conservation of the Living Resources of the High Seas (http://www.oceanlaw.net/texts/summaries/genevafish.htm) Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species and Wild Fauna and Flora [CITES] (http://www.cites.org) Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects [with Protocols I, II, and III] (http://www.unog.ch/frames/ disarm/distreat/excessiv.pdf) Convention on Psychotropic Substances [1971] (http://www.incb.org/e/conv/ 1971/) Convention on the Continental Shelf (http://www.un.org/law/ilc/texts/contsh.htm) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women [CEDAW] (http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/index.html) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination [CERD] (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/d_icerd.htm) Convention on the High Seas (http://www.un.org/law/ilc/texts/hseas.htm) Convention on the International Right of Correction (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/ menu3/b/i_ilocor.htm) Convention on the Marking of Plastic Explosives for the Purpose of Detection (http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/ terrorism_convention_plastic_explosives.html) Convention the Nationality of Married Women (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/ menu3/b/78.htm) Convention on the Non–Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and crimes against Humanity (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/p_limit.htm) Convention on the Offences and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft (http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/terrorism_convention_aircraft.html)
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Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (http://www.unodc.org/ unodc/en/terrorism_convention_nuclear_material.html) Convention on the Political Rights of Women (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/ b/22.htm) Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents (http://www.unodc.org/ unodc/en/terrorism_convention_protected_persons.html) Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (http:// www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/p_genoci.htm) Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations (http:// www.unog.ch/archives/un_priv.htm) Convention on the Prohibition of Military or any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques (http://www.opcw.org/html/db/cwc/more/ enmod.html) Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction [1972] (http://www.opcw.org/html/db/cwc/more/biotox.html) Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling, and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction (http://fas.harvard.edu/ ~hsp/chemical.html) Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production, and Transfer of Anti–Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction [Mine Ban Convention] (http://disarmament.un.org/MineBan.nsf) Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/ b/o_reduce.htm) Convention on the Rights of the Child (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/6/crc/ treaties/crc.htm) Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel (http:// www.un.org/law/cod/safety.htm) Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone (http:// sedac.ciesin.org/pidb/texts/territorial.contiguous.zone.1958.html) Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/ menu3/b/o_c_ref.htm) Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons (http://www.unhchr.ch/ html/menu3/b/o_c_sp.htm) Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field (http://193.194.138.190/html/menu3/b/ q_geneva1.htm) Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/92.htm) Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (http:// www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/91.htm) International Convention against Apartheid in Sports (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/ menu3/b/12.htm)
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International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing, and Training of Mercenaries (http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/1989a.htm) International Convention against the Taking of Hostages (http://www.unodc.org/ unodc/en/terrorism_convention_hostages.html) International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings (http:// www.unodc.org/unodc/en/terrorism_convention_terrorist_bombing.html) International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism (http:// www.unodc.org/unodc/en/resolution_2000–02–25_1.html) International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/ m_mwctoc.htm) International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/11.htm) International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/ menu3/b/a_ccpr.htm) International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (http:// www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/a_cescr.htm) Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (http:// www.opcw.org/html/db/cwc/more/ozone_montreal.html) Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/opt_cedaw.htm) Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/6/crc/treaties/opac.htm) Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution, and Child Pornography (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/ menu2/6/crc/treaties/opsc.htm) Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/a_opt.htm) Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts [Protocol I] (http:// www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/93.htm) Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non–International Armed Conflicts [Protocol II] (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/94.htm) Protocol Amending the Slavery Convention (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/ f2psc.htm) Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf (http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/ terrorism_convention_platforms.html) Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts of Violence at Airports Serving International Civil Aviation (http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/ terrorism_convention_airports.html) Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/ o_p_ref.htm)
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Rio Declaration on Environment and Development [Agenda 21] (http:// www.un.org/esa/sustdev/documents/agenda21/)
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (http://www.un.org/law/icc/)
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade [PIC Convention] (http://www.pic.int/)
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs [1961] (http://www.incb.org/e/conv/1961/)
Slavery Convention (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/f2sc.htm)
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (http://www.pops.int)
Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/ 30.htm)
Treaty on the Non–Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (http://disarmament.un.org/ wmd/npt/index.html)
UN Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances [1988] (http://www.incb.org/e/conv/1988/)
UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime [Firearms Protocol] and its protocols (http://www.odccp.org/crime_cicp_signatures.html)
UN Convention on the Law of the Sea [and other related Agreements] (http:// www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/ convention_overview_convention.htm)
UN Convention to Combat Desertification (http://www.unccd.int/main.php)
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (http://unfccc.int)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/index.htm)
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer [1985] (http:// www.opcw.org/html/db/cwc/more/ozone_vienna.html)
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations and Optional Protocols [1963] (http:// www.un.org/law/ilc/texts/consul.htm)
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations [1961] (http://www.un.org/law/ilc/ texts/dipfra.htm)
Vienna Convention on Succession of States in Respect of Treaties (http:// www.un.org/law/ilc/texts/treasucc.htm)
Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (http://www.un.org/law/ilc/texts/treaties.htm)
Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties between States and International Organizations or between International Organizations [1986] (http://www.un.org/ law/ilc/texts/trbtstat.htm)
in: https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/26872.pdf
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