15 UN pacts the Palestinians want to join

The Palestinians have started the process of obtaining membership of international conventions and covenants in a bid to bolster their claims for statehood.

1) The Four Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and the First Additional Protocol

2) The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations

3) The Vienna Convention on Consular Relations

4) The Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in armed conflict

5) The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

6) The Hague Convention (IV) respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land and its annex: Regulations Concerning the Laws and Customs of War on Land

7) The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

8) The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties

9) The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

10) The Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

11) The United Nations Convention against Corruption

12) The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

13) The International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid

14) The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

15) The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

* Hugh Naylor