Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these international instruments in the order they were adopted.
- The Charter of the United Nations, 1945
- The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, 1969
- The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
- The European Convention on Human Rights, 1950
Hints
- The first three fall within six years of one another.
- The treaty about treaties comes two decades after the human-rights instruments.
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- The Charter of the United Nations, 1945
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
- The European Convention on Human Rights, 1950
- The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, 1969
- The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998
Why
The compression of the first three is the historical point: the architecture of the post-war order was drafted in five years by people who had just watched it fail. Note also that the Universal Declaration was adopted as a declaration and not a treaty, which is why so much argument since has been about how much of it has since become custom.
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