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Nanking, August 29, 1842 Peace Treaty between the Queen of Great Britain and the Emperor of China. This treaty between Britain and China ended the first opium war, fought between 1839 and 1842. The occasion for the war was the destruction in May 1839 by the Chinese emperor’s ‘drug tsar’, …

This treaty, signed on December 24, 1814, ended the War of 1812, fought between Great Britain and the United States. For the early decades of the nation’s history, relations between the United States and Great Britain remained strained. Their relationship deteriorated sharply with the outbreak of war in Europe in …

Who is Party to the Geneva Convention but not a Member of the UN? Last week (Aug 12) was the 61st anniversary of the adoption of the 1949 Geneva Conventions on the protection of victims of armed conflict. The Geneva Conventions are the most widely ratified treaties with 194 parties …

Arctic ownership and the US approach to the law of the sea Could the question of “Arctic ownership” push the US to sign the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention? As we have reported earlier, and as frequently reported in the media (see e.g. this latest article at tampabay.com), …

Africa’s evolving Human Rights Architecture This is a summary of a report produced by: Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT) after a two day seminar held from 28-29 June 2007 at Vineyard Hotel in Cape Town. The paper discusses the effectiveness of Africa’s human rights institutions. It …

Conference on the role of supreme courts in an internationalizing world The Hague Institute for the Internationalization of Law (HIIL) organizes a two-day conference on ‘The changing role of the highest courts in an internationalizing world’. The conference will take place on 23 and 24 October 2008 in the Peace …

ACT OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON VIETNAM the Government of Canada; the Government of the People’s Republic of China; the Government of the United States of America; the Government of the French Republic; the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam; the Government of the Hungarian People’s Republic; …

AGREEMENT ON ENDING THE WAR AND RESTORING PEACE IN VIET-NAM The Parties participating in the Paris Conference on Viet-Nam, With a view to ending the war and restoring peace in Viet-Nam on the basis of respect for the Vietnamese people’s fundamental national rights and the South Vietnamese people’s right to …

ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL FINANCIAL PROTOCOL signed at Brussels, 23 November 1970 ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL PREAMBLE HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF THE BELGIANS, THE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, THE PRESIDENT OF THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC, HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE GRAND DUKE OF LUXEMBOURG, HER MAJESTY …

The United States of America, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the French Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany agree as follows: ARTICLE 1 The Convention on Relations between the Three Powers and the Federal Republic of Germany, the Convention on the Rights and Obligations of …

William R. Day, Secretario de Estado de los Estados Unidos y Su Excelencia Monsieur Cambon, Embajador extraordinario y Plenipotenciario de la República francesa en Washington, habiendo recibido respectivamente al efecto plenos poderes del Gobierno de los Estados Unidos y del Gobierno de España, han formulado y firmado los artículos siguientes, …

Articles of a treaty, made and concluded at Fort Atkinson, in the Indian Territory, of the United States of America, on the 27th day of July, anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty-three, between the United States of America, by Thomas Fitzpatick, Indian agent, and sole commissioner, duly appointed for that …