New Additions to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law

The Codification Division of the UN Office of Legal Affairs recently added three Introductory Notes to the Historic Archives of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law: a Note on the 1953 Convention on the Political Rights of Women, written by Ruth Aura-Odhiambo; a Note on the 1968 Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity, written by Sandesh Sivakumaran; and a Note on the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, written by Neil Boister.

The Cpdification Division also added translations, in the six official languages of the United Nations, of the Introductory Notes on the 1999 International Convention on Arrest of Ships, written by Mahin Faghfouri, and the 1926 Slavery Convention, written by Jean Allain; as well as translations of the Procedural History of the 1981 Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief.