CENTER FOR TREATIES OF NIGERIA
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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 |
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