Treaty Ratifications

The Antislavery in Domestic Legislation and Forced Marriage in Domestic Legislation databases consider a range of international instruments relevant to the prohibition of the various practices and concerns considered in the analysis.

Current, official ratification information for each of these instruments can be accessed through the links below.

Core universal instruments

1926 Slavery Convention (as amended)

1953 Protocol amending the Slavery Convention

1930 Forced Labour Convention

2014 Protocol to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930

1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery

1957 Abolition of Forced Labour Convention

1962 Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages

1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

1966 Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

2008 Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

1999 Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child

2000 Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict

2000 Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography

1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

1999 Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention

2000 Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime

Regional instruments

1950 European Convention on Human Rights

1969 American Convention on Human Rights

1978 Convention on the Celebration and Recognition of the Validity of Marriages

1981 African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights

1990 African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child

1994 Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women

1998 Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights

2003 Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa

2005 Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings

2011 Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combatting Violence against Women and Domestic Violence

2015 ASEAN Convention Against Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children