Full list of treaties, conventions where Abbas seeks membership

Here is a full list of the international treaties and conventions the Palestinians have applied to join.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas signed the relevant documentation at a televised ceremony in Ramallah on Tuesday night. On Wednesday morning, PA Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki handed the letters to UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Robert Serry and to representatives from Switzerland and the Netherlands.

• The Four Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and the First Additional Protocol
• The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations
• The Vienna Convention on Consular Relations
• 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
• The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
• The Hague Convention (IV) respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land
• The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
• The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
• The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
• The Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
• The United Nations Convention against Corruption
• The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
• The International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid
• The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
• The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights