Curated playlist
Treaties of East Germany
- 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 a right to work, to health, to education, and to enough food, clothing, and…
- 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 parties, including every UN member state, the Cook Islands, Niue, the Holy See,…
- 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 carry the force of international law for nearly a decade. The world had to wait…
- 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 avoided: what happens when the weapon itself is the problem, not just how it is used?…
- Warsaw PactThe Warsaw Pact was born on the 14th of May 1955, eight days after West Germany joined NATO. Its founding declaration accused a remilitarized Western Germany of increasing "the danger of another war" and posing a threat to "the national…
- 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 the same day. That date fell squarely in the middle of the space race, just months…
- Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to GermanyOn the 1st of August 1945, the Potsdam Agreement established provisional terms for governing Germany after World War II. This accord created an Oder, Neisse line that awarded most of Germany's former eastern provinces to Poland and 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 within two decades, as many as thirty nuclear-armed nations could exist on earth. 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 agreement in Washington that would freeze territorial ambitions, ban military…
- 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 near-catastrophe to produce. The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty forbade nuclear…