The majority of states in large parts of the world, namely South and South East Asia and the Middle East, have yet to sign the refugee convention.
Only a handful of countries have failed to sign the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) which internationally bans their use.
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The United States has legislation before Senate that will enable it to sign and ratify the Convention in the near future.
Several countries in the Middle East have refused to sign the Chemical Weapons Convention until Israel signs the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
But getting more countries to sign up to The Hague Convention would probably help.
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One such difference was over the UK government's support for the EU - as a whole entity - to sign up to the European Convention on Human Rights.
In order to do so we have to petition the U.S. authorities to join, sign and ratify 1954 UN Convention, relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, and 1961 UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.
It was on September 17, 1787, that 39 delegates to the Constitutional Convention met for the last time to sign the Constitution of the United States.
If you had only one name (which some indeed do) or if you followed some other, non Anglo, naming convention then the site simply would not allow you to sign up in that manner.
But over a long summer and autumn of Republican events - the convention, rallies, meetings in diners and homes - I searched in vain for any sign of them.
What the Justice Department's 1996 memorandum on this issue fails to point out is that neither the United States, the Soviet Union nor Russia is a party to this 1978 convention--and that in fact 90 percent of the world's states have also refused to sign it.
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