Curated category
Treaties of Czechoslovakia
- Covenant of the League of NationsThe Covenant of the League of Nations was signed on the 28th of June 1919, tucked into Part I of the Treaty of Versailles, and it carried an astonishing…
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural RightsOn the 16th of December 1966, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a treaty that promised something startling. It said that everyone, everywhere, has…
- Montreal ProtocolThe Montreal Protocol carries a distinction no other treaty in United Nations history holds: it is the only international agreement ever ratified by all 198…
- International Covenant on Civil and Political RightsThe International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on the 16th of December 1966, yet it would not…
- Convention on Certain Conventional WeaponsThe Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons was concluded in Geneva on the 10th of October 1980, born from a question that arms negotiators had long…
- Outer Space TreatyThe Outer Space Treaty was opened for signature on the 27th of January 1967, with the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union all signing on…
- Locarno TreatiesThe Locarno Treaties were born from a contradiction. Germany, still raw from the humiliations of the Treaty of Versailles, sat down in October 1925 with the…
- Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear WeaponsThe Non-Proliferation Treaty, known almost universally as the NPT, opened for signature in 1968 with a single overriding fear driving its creation: that…
- Antarctic Treaty SystemThe Antarctic Treaty System governs an entire continent where no human being has ever been born. On the 1st of December 1959, twelve nations signed an…
- Treaty of Paris between Italy and the Allied PowersThe Treaty of Paris between Italy and the Allied Powers was signed on the 10th of February 1947, drawing a formal line under the fighting of World War II…
- Partial Nuclear Test Ban TreatyOn the 5th of August 1963, three governments gathered in Moscow to sign a document that had taken nearly two decades of argument, scientific dispute, and…