In addition to treaties, there are other less formal international agreements. These include such efforts as the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) and the G7 Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Major sources of international climate change law include the Paris Agreement, the Kyoto Protocol, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the decisions made by the UNFCCC in implementing these treaties.
Climate change and ozone depletion United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - UNFCCC (1992) Kyoto Protocol (1997) Paris Agreement (2015) Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer (1985) Montreal Protocol (1987) as amended.
Treaties also have been classified ing to their object, as follows: (1) political treaties, including peace treaties, alliances, territorial cessions, and disarmament treaties; (2) commercial treaties, including tariff, consular, fishery, and navigation agreements; (3) constitutional and administrative treaties, ...
Main UN International Human Rights Conventions and Protocols ICERD – International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. ICCPR – International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. ICESCR – International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Treaties can be bilateral (between two states) or multilateral (between three or more states). Treaties can also include the creation of rights for individuals. Treaties are commonly called 'agreements', 'conventions', `protocols' or `covenants' , and less commonly `exchanges of letters'.
Conventions between two states are called bilateral treaties; conventions between a small number of states (but more than two) are called plurilateral treaties (such as the GPA ); conventions between a large number of states are called multilateral treaties .
They include the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948), the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1965), the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979), the Convention on the Rights of the Child ( ...
Britain occupied Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and the New Territories, which had been part of the territory of China, by the three unequal treaties, namely the Treaty of Nanking, the Convention of Peking and the Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory.