There are two UN Conventions on Statelessness. They seek to protect people who are currently stateless and prevent and end statelessness globally. Countries decide who their nationals are, setting ...

The IAEA promotes adherence to and implementation of international legal instruments on nuclear safety adopted under its auspices. This includes the Convention on Nuclear Safety and the Joint ...

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly, is often described as an international bill of rights for women.

The 1951 Refugee Convention, supplemented by its 1967 Protocol, help protect them. They are the cornerstone of refugee protection and the key legal documents that form the basis of UNHCR’s work. The ...

These include the Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage and the Protocol to amend it, the Joint Protocol Relating to the Application of the Vienna Convention and the Paris Convention ...

The Beatles were heavily influenced by rock 'n' roll artists such as Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry. The genre rock 'n' roll was developed in North America in the 1950s through combining the ...

The catalog generally follows Library of Congress conventions but we depart in many details, such as use of aggregated pinyin, use of Romanized pinyin and CJK scripts in the same field, customized ...

The Montreal Convention is an international treaty with over 140 participating countries, including the U.S. It creates strict rules for how airlines handle claims for flight delays and cancellations.

As its official culture and community partner, it plans to give back to Paris’ cultural scene over the three-year deal.

The Geneva Conventions are four separate treaties negotiated and re-negotiated by international committees between 1864 and 1977 to govern human rights during wartime. Henri Dunant, founder of the ...

A day-count convention measures how interest accrues on investments like bonds, notes, mortgages, and loans over time. Specifically, a day-count convention is a system used in the bond market to ...

With Labor Day weekend comes the biggest gaming convention on the West Coast, and one of the largest in the world. PAX West ...