A guide to parliamentary action in support of disarmament for security and sustainable development

List of key international disarmament treaties and agreements

  • Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997
  • Arms Trade Treaty, 2013
  • Bangkok Treaty (South East Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone), 1995
  • Biological Weapons Convention, 1972
  • Central Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone Treaty, 2006
  • Chemical Weapons Convention, 1992
  • Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, 1996
  • Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, 1980
  • Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008
  • Convention on Environmental Modification Techniques, 1976
  • International Instrument to Enable States to Identify and Trace, in a Timely and Reliable Manner, Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons, 2005
  • Pelindaba Treaty (Africa Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone), 1986
  • Rarotonga Treaty (South Pacific Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone), 1986
  • Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), 1990
  • Treaty of Tlatelolco (Latin America and Caribbean Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone), 1967
  • Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), 1968
  • Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, 2017
  • UN Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the
  • Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects (PoA), 2001
  • UN Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in
  • Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition (Firearms Protocol), 2001

Note: Additional regional agreements are included in the chapters relating to those agreements above, and especially regional agreements relating to small arms and light weapons.

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