Cristine Jan Buranday Reporting date: 1/11/13

Camille Eve Fabula

Ariel Revil
Rare Alyssa Soriano

1. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Entered into Force: 12 January 1951
Number of Parties: 142 states
- defines genocide in legal terms
...any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national,
ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its
physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

2. Convention on the Rights of the Child
Entered into Force: 2 September 1990
Number of Parties: 193 states, including every member of the United Nations except Somalia, South
Sudan and the United States
- human rights treaty setting out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of
children
- defines a child as any human being under the age of eighteen, unless the age of majority is attained
earlier under a state's own domestic legislation

3. North Atlantic Treaty (Washington Treaty)
- Officially laid down the foundations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization with its signing on 4th
April 1949
- It is a model of conciseness and provides for in-built flexibility on all fronts. Without the original text
being modified at any stage, the Alliance has been able to adapt to a changing security environment
through time and each Ally can implement the text in accordance with its capabilities and circumstances.
- NATO is a security alliance of 28 countries from North America and Europe. Its fundamental goal is to
safeguard the Allies' freedom and security by political and military means.
- The Parties to this Treaty reaffirm their faith in the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United
Nations and their desire to live in peace with all peoples and all governments.

4. The Antarctic Treaty
- Signed in Washington on 1 December 1959 by the twelve countries whose scientists had been active in
and around Antarctica during the International Geophysical Year (IGY) of 1957-58.
Entered into Force: 23 June 1961
Number of Parties: 50 countries
- covers the area south of 60S latitude
- Its objectives are simple yet unique in international relations. They are:
(a) to demilitarize Antarctica, to establish it as a zone free of nuclear tests and the disposal
of radioactive waste, and to ensure that it is used for peaceful purposes only;
(b) to promote international scientific cooperation in Antarctica;
(c) to set aside disputes over territorial sovereignty.

5. Tripartite Pact
- also known as the Three-Power Pact, Axis Pact, Three-way Pact or Tripartite Treaty was a pact signed in
Berlin, Germany on September 27, 1940, which established the Axis Powers of World War II.
- The pact was signed by representatives:
Adolf Hitler (Nazi Germany)
Galeazzo Ciano (Fascist Italy)
Saburo Kurusu - Japanese ambassador to Germany (Imperial Japan)
The three nations agreed that for the next ten years they would stand by and cooperate with one
another in their prime purpose to establish and maintain a new order of things to promote the mutual
prosperity and welfare of the people concerned. They recognized each other's spheres of interest and
undertook "to assist one another with all political, economic and military means when one of the three
contracting powers is attacked" by a country not already involved in the war, excluding the Soviet Union.

6. Treaty of Versailles
- peace document signed at the end of World War I by the Allied and Associated Powers and by
Germany in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, France, on June 28, 1919
- took force on January 10, 1920
- created primarily so that the Allies, the winning countries of WWI, could decide and agree upon what
they wanted to do to the Central Powers, the losing countries.
- Perhaps the most humiliating portion of the treaty for defeated Germany was Article 231, commonly
known as the "War Guilt Clause," which forced the German nation to accept complete responsibility for
initiating World War I. It also allowed other countries to take away Germanys colonies around the world
Moreover, Germany was forbidden to maintain an air force. Finally, Germany was required to conduct
war crimes proceedings against the Kaiser and other leaders for waging aggressive war.

7. Treaty of Joint Defense and Economic Cooperation between the States of the Arab League
The Hashimite Kingdom of Jordan
The Syrian Republic
The Kingdom of Iraq
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
The Lebanese Republic
The Kingdom of Egypt
The Motawakilite Kingdom of Yemen
In view of the desire of the above-mentioned Governments to consolidate relations between the States
of the Arab League; to maintain their independence and their mutual heritage; in accordance with the
desire of their peoples, to cooperate for the realization of mutual defense and the maintenance of
security and peace according to the principles of both the Arab League Pact and the United Nations
Charter, together with the aims of the said Pacts; and to consolidate stability and security and provide
means of welfare and development in the countries.




8. 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions
and Practices Similar to Slavery
Entered into Force: 30 April 1957
Number of Parties: 123 countries
The parties commit to abolish and abandon debt bondage, serfdom, servile marriage and child servitude.
The parties commit to enacting minimum ages of marriage, encouraging registration of marriages, and
encouraging the public declaration of consent to marriage. It specifies the criminalization of slave
trafficking, enslavement and giving others into slavery.

9. Treaty On Principles Governing The Activities Of States In The Exploration And Use Of Outer
Space, Including The Moon And Other Celestial Bodies (Outer Space Treaty)
Entered into Force: 10 October 1967
Number of Parties: 101 States
- The Treaty stipulates that exploration and use of outer space shall be carried out for the benefit and in
the interest of all countries, and it shall be the province of mankind.
- Parties agree not to place in orbit around the Earth any objects carrying nuclear weapons or any other
kinds of weapons of mass destruction; not to install such weapons on celestial bodies, or station them in
outer space in any other manner; the Moon and other celestial bodies are to be used exclusively for
peaceful purposes; establishment of military bases, installations and fortifications, the testing of any
type of weapons, and the conduct of military maneuvers on celestial bodies shall be forbidden.

10. Covenant of the League of Nations
-intended to promote international co-operation and to achieve international peace and security
(a) by the acceptance of obligations not to resort to war,
(b) by the prescription of open, just and honorable relations between nations,
(c) by the firm establishment of the understandings of international law as the actual rule of
conduct among Governments, and
(d) by the maintenance of justice and a scrupulous respect for all treaty obligations in the
dealings of organised peoples with one another
- intended to be the primary body of a new style of international relations based on the cooperation of
all of the nations of the world.
- was to be centered in Geneva, Switzerland, a neutral location
- small nations as well as large nations were asked to join, dependent on their acceptance of the
Covenant of the League
- The League of Nations first met in November 1920. Forty-two nations were represented at this first
meeting. Notably absent were German, Russia, and the United States. Germany, identified as the
aggressor in World War I, was barred from admission at first, and admitted in 1926. Russia, now the
Soviet Union, was not invited to join the League due to the radical policies of the new communist
government. The Soviet Union finally became a member of the League in 1935. In November 1919, the
US Senate voted against accepting membership to the League, and the nation never joined.
- The League of Nations operated through three agencies: the Assembly, the Council, and the Secretariat.