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International Conventions on Human Rights
to which Israel is Signatory
| Name of Convention |
signed by
Israel on: |
joined/ ratified
by Israel on: |
| Convention on the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide |
Sept 7, 1948 |
Mar 9, 1950 |
| International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) |
Mar 7, 1966 |
Jan 1, 1979 |
| International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) |
Dec 19, 1966 |
Oct 3, 1991 |
| International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) |
Dec 19, 1966 |
Oct 3, 1991 |
| Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT) |
Oct 22, 1986 |
Oct 3, 1991 |
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| Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) |
July 3, 1990 |
Oct 3, 1991 |
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| Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees |
Aug 1, 1951 |
Oct 1, 1954 |
| Convention Relating to the status of Stateless Persons |
Oct 1, 1954 |
Dec 23, 1958 |
| Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness |
Aug 30, 1961 |
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| Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees |
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Aug 14, 1968 |
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| Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) |
July 17, 1980 |
Oct 3, 1991 |
| Convention on the Political Rights of Women |
Apr 14, 1953 |
July 6, 1954 |
| Convention on the Nationality of Married Women |
Mar 12, 1957 |
July 6, 1957 |
| Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages |
Mar 10, 1962 |
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| Slavery Convention, 1926 amended by the Protocol of 1953 |
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Sept 12, 1955 |
| Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery |
Sept 7, 1956 |
Oct 23, 1957 |
| Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons or the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others |
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Dec 28, 1950 |
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| Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field (Geneva I) |
Aug 12, 1949 |
July 6, 1951 |
| Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea (Geneva II) |
Aug 12, 1949 |
July 6, 1951 |
| Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (Geneva III) |
Aug 12, 1949 |
July 6, 1951 |
| Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (Geneva IV) |
Aug 12, 1949 |
July 6, 1951 |
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