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Frontmatter Contents Introduction A. Protection of Human Rights 1. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1 a. Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1 b. Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Aiming at the Abolition of the Death Penalty 2. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 3. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide 4. International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 5. International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid 6. Convention Concerning Forced or Compulsory Labour 7. Convention Concerning the Abolition of Forced Labour 8. Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 9. Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children 10. Convention on the Political Rights of Women 11. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 12. Convention on the Rights of the Child 13. Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees 13 a. Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees B. Protection of Humanity in Armed Conflicts 1. Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare 2. Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Conditi 3. Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War 4. Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea 5. Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 6. Protocol Additional to the Geneva Convention of 12.8.1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I) 7. Protocol Additional to the Geneva Convention of 12.8.1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol II) 8. 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 9. Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction C. Protection of Environment 1. Convention on Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter 1 a. Amendments to the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter concerning Settlement of Disputes 2. International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships 2 a. Protocol of 1978 Relating to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships 3. International Convention Relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Oil Pollution Casualities 4. Protocol Relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Pollution by Substances Other than Oil 5. International Convention on Oil Pollution, Preparedness, Response and Cooperation 6. International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling 7. Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources 8. Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Seals 9. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna 10. Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals 11. International Plant Protection Convention (Revised Text) 12. Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal 13. Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer 14. Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer 14 a. Adjustments to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer 14 b. Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer 15. Convention on