Research Guides: Health Law Research Guide: Conventions

Conventions

"The designation 'convention' tends to be utilized for multilateral treaties of a law-making type." Satow, Guide to Diplomatic Practice 29.17 (5th ed.)

Additional Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with Regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine, on the Prohibition of Cloning Human Beings
Paris (1998, 2001).
Additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, concerning Biomedical Research
Strasbourg (2005, 2007).
Additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, on Transplantation of Organs and Tissues of Human Origin
Strasbourg (2002, 2006).
Convention and Optional Protocol Signatures and Ratifications on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Listing of countries and/or regional integration organizations that have signed and/or ratified the Convention.
Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with Regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine
Oviedo (1997, 1999).
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
UN (2006) (entered into force May 3, 2008).
Convention on the Rights of the Child
United Nations Human Rights, November 1989, entry into force: September 2, 1990.
Convention on the Rights of the Child website
(UNICEF)
Maternity Protection Convention, 2000
International Labour Organisation. Entered into force on February 7, 2002.
Occupational Safety and Health Convention of 1981
International Labour Organisation (ILO), 1981, entered into force: August 11, 1983.
Optional Protocol to the Convention of the Rights of the Child
Resolution adopted on December 19, 2011.
Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 2006.
International Labour Organization (ILO), entry into force: February 20, 2009.