6. Membership in International Conventions
This dimension is of direct relevance to criterion six in the EU Common Position. It checks the degree to which a country has ratified a number of select international conventions concerning humanitarian international law, arms control, terrorism and trans-national organised crime. For every country examined, the website provides updated information on whether all together 29 international conventions and treaties have been ratified or not.
A country is classified as ‘possibly critical’ if its ratification record is at least problematic. This is the case if the respective country ratified less than 23 of 29 conventions or less than 8 of 10 conventions of particular relevance. A country is classified as ‘critical’ if sufficient ratification of international treaties is clearly lacking. This is the case if the country ratified less than 18 of 29 conventions or less than 6 of 10 conventions of particular relevance.
Indicators
| Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, 1971 | No |
| Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents, 1973 | No |
| International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages, 1983 | No |
| Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material, 1987 | No |
| Convention on the Marking of Plastic Explosives for the Purpose of Detection, 1998 | No |
| International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings, 2001 | No |
| International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, 2002 | No |
| International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism, 2007 | No |
| United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 2003 | No |
| Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 2003 | No |
| Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 2004 | No |
| Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 2005 | No |
| Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare (Geneva Protocol), 1928 | No |
| Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water (Partial Test Ban Treaty), 1963 | No |
| 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), 1967 | No |
| Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (Non-Proliferation Treaty), 1970 | No |
| Treaty on the Prohibition of the Emplacement of Nuclear Weapons and other Weapons of Mass Destruction on the Seabed and the Ocean Floor and in the Subsoil thereof (Seabed Treaty), 1972 | No |
| Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction (Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention), 1975 | No |
| Convention on the Prohibition of Military or any other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques, 1978 | No |
| 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, 1983 | No |
| Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, 1996 | No |
| Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction (Chemical Weapons Convention), 1997 | No |
| Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, 1999 | No |
| Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2010 | No |
| Arms Trade Treaty, 2014 | No |
| Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1951 | No |
| Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts, 1977 | No |
| Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts, 1977 | No |
| Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 2002 | No |
Sources
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United Nations Treaty Collection
The United Nations Treaty Collection records and publishes treaties and other international agreements pursuant to Article 102 of the United Nations Charter.
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UNODA Disarmament Treaties Database
Since 1978, the United Nations has been publishing the status of multilateral Arms Regulation and Disarmament Agreements, presenting data on signatories, partied of relevant agreements and the texts of the agreements themselves.