Treaty
UN Treaty sources
UN charter requires members to register all treaties. Arrangement of these volumes is by date of registration and not ratification. There are often long delays in registering treaties and some nations refuse to comply with the requirement altogether. Citations are made to volume and page numbers. For example, 574 UNTS 345. Publication is very slow, delay is about 5 years. Indexing can also be sketchy. Sometimes volumes are skipped and published later.
Searching for UN treaties can be tricky. The best approach is to use the online searches to find what is needed.
- Treaty series / United Nations (UNTS) [Print volumes (with periodic index volumes) 1971-date]
- Depository Notifications Search [Best place to find most recently registered treaties. Fills the gap created by slow print process]
- UN Treaty Search [online index, of particular interest is the particpants search]
- World League Inforation Institute [Access to international treaties. UN Access begins in 1946]
