Treaties: Other Treaties

Hague Adoption Convention

• To safeguard kids and their families from the dangers of unauthorised, irregular, hurried, or ill-prepared adoptions overseas and to stop kidnapping, child trafficking, and child sale.
• Reinforces Article 21 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
• India Ratified in 2003

Chemical Weapons Convention

• Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction
• India is a signatory 

Biological Weapons Convention

• To prohibit the development, production, and stockpiling of biological and toxin weapons
• India is a member

Budapest Convention

• To coordinates cybercrime investigations between nation-states and criminalises certain cybercrime conduct
• India is not a member 

Geneva Convention

• Codify ethical and legal international standards for humanitarian treatment of those impacted by any ongoing war.