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Agreements, Declarations and

Conventions

Volume I

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Charter of the United Nations

5

Introductory Note

5

Preamble

5

CHAPTER I: PURPOSES AND PRINCIPLES

5

CHAPTER II: MEMBERSHIP

6

CHAPTER III: ORGANS

6

CHAPTER IV: THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

6

COMPOSITION

6

FUNCTIONS and POWERS

6

VOTING

7

PROCEDURE

7

CHAPTER V: THE SECURITY COUNCIL

7

COMPOSITION

7

FUNCTIONS and POWERS

8

VOTING

8

PROCEDURE

8

CHAPTER VI: PACIFIC SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES

8

CHAPTER VII: ACTION WITH RESPECT TO THREATS

TO THE PEACE, BREACHES OF THE PEACE, AND

ACTS OF AGGRESSION

9

CHAPTER VIII: REGIONAL ARRANGEMENTS

10

CHAPTER IX: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC AND

SOCIAL CO-OPERATION

10

CHAPTER X: THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL 11

COMPOSITION

11

FUNCTIONS and POWERS

11

VOTING

11

PROCEDURE

11

CHAPTER XI: DECLARATION REGARDING

NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES

12

CHAPTER XII: INTERNATIONAL TRUSTEESHIP SYSTEM

12

CHAPTER XIII: THE TRUSTEESHIP COUNCIL

13

COMPOSITION

13

FUNCTIONS and POWERS

13

VOTING

13

PROCEDURE

13

CHAPTER XIV: THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF

JUSTICE

13

CHAPTER XV: THE SECRETARIAT

14

CHAPTER XVI: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

14

CHAPTER XVII: TRANSITIONAL SECURITY

ARRANGEMENTS

14

CHAPTER XVIII: AMENDMENTS

15

CHAPTER XIX: RATIFICATION AND SIGNATURE

15

Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

15

PART 1. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE COURT

16

PART 2. JURISDICTION, ADMISSIBILITY AND

APPLICABLE LAW

16

PART 3. GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINAL LAW

21

PART 4. COMPOSITION AND ADMINISTRATION OF

THE COURT

23

PART 5. INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION

27

PART 6. THE TRIAL

31

PART 7. PENALTIES

35

PART 8. APPEAL AND REVISION

36

PART 9. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND

JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE

37

PART 10. ENFORCEMENT

42

PART 11. ASSEMBLY OF STATES PARTIES

43

PART 12. FINANCING

44

Statute of the International Court of Justice

46

CHAPTER I ORGANIZATION OF THE COURT

46

CHAPTER II COMPETENCE OF THE COURT

48

CHAPTER III PROCEDURE

49

CHAPTER IV ADVISORY OPINIONS

50

CHAPTER V AMENDMENT

50

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

50

Preamble

50

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

52

Adopted and opened for signature, ratification

and accession by General Assembly resolution

2200A (XXI) of 16 December 1966

52

entry into force 23 March 1976, in accordance with

Article 49

52

PART I

53

PART II

53

PART III

53

PART IV

56

PART V

58

PART VI

58

International Covenant on Economic, Social and

Cultural Rights

59

Adopted and opened for signature, ratification

and accession by General Assembly resolution

2200A (XXI) of 16 December 1966

59

entry into force 3 January 1976, in accordance

with article 27

59

PART I

59

PART II

59

PART III

60

PART IV

61

PART V

62

International Convention on the Elimination of All

Forms of Racial Discrimination

63

UN Declaration on the Elimination of all Forms of

Racial Discrimination

67

Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman

or Degrading Treatment

68

Convention on the Rights of the Child

73

PART I

74

PART II

79

PART III

80

Convention on the Political Rights of Women

81

Convention on the Suppression of Traffic in Persons

and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others 82

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