politoics

• UNCRC - Convention on the Rights of the Child, protecting children's rights

  November 20, 1989
• CEDAW - Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

  September 3, 1981
• CAT - Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

  June 26, 1987
• ICESCR - International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

  January 3, 1976
• ICCPR - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

  March 23, 1976
• Geneva Convention - Set of treaties regulating humanitarian treatment in war

  August 22, 1864
• Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols - 1864


  International treaties that contain the most important rules limiting the barbarity of war. They protect people who do not take part in the fighting (civilians, medics, aid workers) and those who can no longer fight (wounded, sick and shipwrecked troops, prisoners of war)
• Montevideo Convention - Defines statehood criteria and principles

  December 26, 1933
• NGO

  A nonprofit organization that operates independently of any government, typically one whose purpose is to address a social or political issue
• IGO

  The term intergovernmental organization (IGO) refers to an entity created by treaty, involving two or more nations, to work in good faith, on issues of common interest
• NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO's fundamental goal is to safeguard the Allies' freedom and security by political and military means

  April 4, 1949
• Non-State Actors


  A non-state actor is an individual or organization that has significant political influence but is not allied to any particular country or state
• Kyoto Protocol - Agreement aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Focused only on developed nations

  February 16, 2005
• Treaty of Westphalia - Ended Thirty Years' War and established principles of state sovereignty

  October 24, 1648
• EU - European Union. 27 member states


  November 1, 1993
• UN - The United Nations is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a center for harmonizing the actions of nations

  October 24, 1945
• UN Organs

  • General Assembly
  • Security Council
  • Economic and Social Council
  • Trusteeship Council
  • International Court of Justice (ICJ)
  • UN Secretariat
• UDHR - Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  December 10, 1948
• ICC - International Criminal Court

  July 1, 2002
• ICC

  The Rome Statute sets out the crimes falling within the jurisdiction of the ICC, the rules of procedure and the mechanisms for States to cooperate with the ICC
• R2P - Responsibility to Protect. The Responsibility to Protect is a global political commitment which was endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly at the 2005 World Summit in order to address its four key concerns to prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity


  2005