§ Mr. McNamaraTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on what dates the(a) Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1948, (b) International Labour Organisation Migration for Employment Convention (Revised), 1949 (No. 97), (c) Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others, 1949, (d) Convention relating to the Status of Refugees of 1951, and its 1967 Protocol, (e) International Labour Organisation Discrimination Convention (Employment and Occupation), 1958 (No. 111), (f) Convention against Discrimination in Education, adopted on 14 December 1960 by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, (g) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 1979, with a view to achieving universal ratification within five years, and its Optional Protocol of 1999, (h) Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989 and its two Optional Protocols of 2000, and the International Labour Organisation Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) and Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182), (i) International Labour Organisation Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Convention, 1975 (No. 143), (j) International Labour Organisation Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169) and the Convention on Biological Diversity, 1992, (k) International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, 1990, (1) Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998, (m) United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime, the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the Convention and the Protocol against the smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the Convention, 2000 and (n) the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, proclaimed by the General Assembly in its resolution 36/55, of 25 November 1981 instruments were (i) signed and (ii) ratified; and what further progress he expects to make with these in the next 12 months. [13924]
§ Peter Hain(a) The United Kingdom acceded to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1948 on 30 January 1970.
(b) The UK signed the International Labour Organisation Migration for Employment Convention (Revised), 1949 (No. 97) on 1 July 1949 and ratified on 22 January 1951.
(c)The UK is not party to the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others, 1949.
(d) The UK signed the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees of 1951 on 28 July 1951 and ratified on 11 March 1954. The UK acceded to the 1967 Protocol on 4 September 1968.
837W(e) The UK ratified the International Labour Organisation Discrimination Convention (Employment and Occupation), 1958 (No. 111) on 8 June 1999.
(f) The UK accepted the Convention against Discrimination in Education, adopted on 14 December 1960 by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, on 14 March 1962.
g) The UK signed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 1979 in July 1981 and ratified on 7 April 1986. The UK is not party to the Optional Protocol of 1999.
(h) The UK signed the Convention on the Rights of the Child on 19 April 1980 and ratified on 16 December 1991. The UK signed the two Optional Protocols (2000) to the Convention on 7 September 2000. The UK ratified the International Labour Organisation Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) on 7 June 2000 and ratified the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182) on 23 March 2000.
(i) The UK is not party to the International Labour Organisation Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Convention, 1975 (No. 143).
(j) The UK is not party to the International Labour Organisation Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169). The UK signed the Convention on Biological Diversity, 1992 on 12 June 1992 and ratified on 3 June 1994.
(k) The UK is not party to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, 1990.
(l) The UK signed the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court on 30 November 1998 and ratified on 4 October 2001.
(m) The UK signed the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime, the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, and the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, on 14 December 2000.
(n) The UK supported the adoption by consensus of the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, proclaimed by the General Assembly in its resolution 36/55, of 25 November 1981.
Over the next 12 months, the UK will be working for early ratification of the two Optional Protocols to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime and the two Optional Protocols supplementing the Convention.