On May 18, at the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Lincoln's friends promised and manipulated and won the nomination on the third ballot, beating candidates such as William H. Seward and Salmon P. Chase.

* The Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities ( 1988 ) ( signed in 1988, not in force )

* Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

In 1860, the Tennessee delegation nominated Johnson for president at the Democratic National Convention, and Johnson tentatively offered himself as a Vice-President on the Douglas ticket as a back up plan.

At the Democratic Convention, when he came in second on the first ballot and faded from there, it became clear that he was too unpopular to run.

* 1961 – The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, a cornerstone of modern international relations, is adopted.

The following year, The Guardian challenged the succession law in court, claiming that it violated the European Convention on Human Rights, which provides " The enjoyment of the rights and freedoms set forth in this Convention shall be secured without discrimination on any ground such as sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, association with a national minority, property, birth or other status.

The Convention on Offenses and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft (" Tokyo Convention ") is a multilateral convention, done at Tokyo between 20 August and 14 September 1963, coming into force on 4 December 1963, and is applicable to offenses against penal law and to any acts jeopardizing the safety of persons or property on board civilian aircraft while in-flight and engaged in international air navigation.

Signed at The Hague on 16 December 1970, the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft contains 14 articles relating to what constitutes hijacking as well as guidelines for what is expected of governments when dealing with hijackings.

See the United Nations website for full text on " Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Civil Aviation ".

DiFranco went on to perform at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

Internationally, DMT is a Schedule I drug under the Convention on Psychotropic Substances.

The Commentary on the Convention on Psychotropic Substances notes, however, that the plants containing it are not subject to international control :< ref >

A fax from the Secretary of the International Narcotics Control Board to the Netherlands Ministry of Public Health sent in 2001 goes on to state that " Consequently, preparations ( e. g. decoctions ) made of these plants, including ayahuasca, are not under international control and, therefore, not subject to any of the articles of the 1971 Convention.

Placing minefields without marking and recording them for later removal is considered a war crime under Protocol II of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, which is itself an annex to the Geneva Conventions.

* 1963 – The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg.

International law does not prohibit the use of napalm or other incendiaries against military targets, but use against civilian populations was banned by the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons ( CCW ) in 1980.

Conventions which used the Franc Poincaré included the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air, the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage and the International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage.

* 1980 United Nations Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects ( CCW )

" However, " directed energy weapons that target the central nervous system and cause neurophysiological disorders " may violate the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons of 1980.

Certain leaders of the anti-woman party of temperance activists declared that the Whole World's Temperance Convention was not necessary — it need not take place — women were to be allowed to take part in their event.

* Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention ( Strasbourg Convention of 1963 )

* The 1963 Convention on Offences and Certain Other Acts Committed On Board Aircraft

The Montreal Convention, formally the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air, is a treaty adopted by a Diplomatic meeting of ICAO member states in 1999.

* Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons

Certain types of conventional weapons are also regulated or prohibited under the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.

Article 4 of the Hague Convention on Certain Questions relating to the Conflict of Nationality Laws of 1930 provides that " a State may not afford diplomatic protection to one of its nationals against a state whose nationality such person also possesses ".

Use of aerial incendiary bombs against civilian populations, including against military targets in civilian areas, was banned in the 1980 United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons Protocol III.

The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention, also called Strasbourg Convention or Strasbourg Patent Convention, is a multilateral treaty signed by Member States of the Council of Europe on November 27, 1963 in Strasbourg, France.

As an alternative to an outright ban, 10 countries follow regulations that are contained in a 1996 amendment of Protocol II of the Convention on Conventional Weapons ( CCW ).

This is because in the future it may be the consensus view that depleted uranium projectiles breaches one or more of the following treaties: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights ; the Charter of the United Nations ; the Genocide Convention ; the United Nations Convention Against Torture ; the Geneva Conventions including Protocol I ; the Convention on Conventional Weapons of 1980 ; the Chemical Weapons Convention ; and the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material.

According to the Protocol III of the UN Convention on Conventional Weapons governing the use of incendiary weapons:

* Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons

The use of incendiary weapons against civilians was banned by signatory countries in the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons Protocol III.

* 1997 – The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.

* 1972 – Seventy-four nations sign the Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of biological weapons.

There is an overlap between biological warfare and chemical warfare, as the use of toxins produced by living organisms is considered under the provisions of both the Biological Weapons Convention and the Chemical Weapons Convention.

Offensive biological warfare, including mass production, stockpiling and use of biological weapons, was outlawed by the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention ( BWC ).

( The 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention ( BWC ) extended the ban to almost all production, storage and transport.

In 2010 at The Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological ( Biological ) and Toxin Weapons and Their Destruction in Geneva

On August 10, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon formally transmitted the Biological Weapons Convention to the United States Senate for ratification.

In his transmittal, he states: " I am transmitting herewith, for the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, and Stockpiling of Bacteriological ( Biological ) and Toxin Weapons, and on their Destruction, opened for signature at Washington, London and Moscow on April 10, 1972.

As chemical weapons, they are classified as weapons of mass destruction by the United Nations according to UN Resolution 687 ( passed in April 1991 ) and their production and stockpiling was outlawed by the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 ; the Chemical Weapons Convention officially took effect on April 29, 1997.

According to a International Committee of the Red Cross review of the Biological Weapons Convention, " Toxins are poisonous products of organisms ; unlike biological agents, they are inanimate and not capable of reproducing themselves.

Yemen is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, is a party to the Biological Weapons Convention, and has signed and ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention.

** Chemical Weapons Convention ( CWC ) signed.

** The U. S. and the Soviet Union join some 70 nations in signing the Biological Weapons Convention, an agreement to ban biological warfare.