MULTILATERAL TREATIES OF NIGERIA (GLOBAL)

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MULTILATERAL TREATIES OF NIGERIA (GLOBAL)

MULTINATIONAL [BLOC & COOPERATION] TREATIES

Multinational Conventions/Treaties	Date of entry into force	Nigeria’s Date of Ratification or Accession
Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Statute	September, 1960	July, 1971
OPEC Fund for International Development	January 1976	January 1976
Islamic Development Bank Instrument (Declaration of Intent Issued by the Conference of Finance Ministers of Muslim Countries held in Jeddah in Dhul Q’adah 1393H)	December, 1973	NA
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, OIC	1986 (Joined)	NA

GLOBAL TREATIES/CONVENTIONS [FACILITATED BY UNITED NATIONS]

GLOBAL TREATIES AND CONVENTIONS

Title	Date of Ratification or Accession
UNITED NATIONS CHARTER
Abolition of Forced Labour Convention	1960
Basel Convention on the control of Tran boundary movement of Hazardous wastes and their Disposal	1991
Cartagena Protocol on Bio-safety	2003
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty CTBT	2001
Convention Against Torture & other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT)	2001
Convention on Biological Diversity	1992
Convention concerning Forced or Compulsory Labour	1960
Convention concerning minimum age for admission to Employment	2002
Convention concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the worst forms of Child Labour	2002
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)	1985
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of wild fauna and Flora	1974
Conventions on Nuclear Proliferation Treaty, NPT	1968
Convention on Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and use of Chemical Weapons and their Destruction	1999
Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees	1967
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)	1991
Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons & Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others	2003
Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention	2002
Equal Remuneration Convention	1974
Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise	1960
Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of war	1988
Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War	1961
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD);	1969
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of terrorism	2003
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (CPPR)	1993
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)	1993
International Convention on The Establishment of An International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage	1971
International Convention for The Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973
International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage
Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate change	2004
Montreal Protocol on Substances that deplete the Ozone layer	1988
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW-OP)	2000
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (CRC-OP-AC)	2000
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography (CRC-OP-SC)	2000
Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime	2001
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress & Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women & Children, supplementing the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime Preamble, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime	2001
Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees 1967	1968
Right to organise and collective bargaining	1960
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court	2001
Stockholm Convention Against Persistent Organic Pollutants	2004
United Nations Convention against Corruption	2004
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic drugs and Psychotropic Substances	1981
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime	2001
United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances	1981
United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs	1969
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer