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.

Carbon storage in or under oceans may not be compatible with the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter.

# REDIRECT Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter

The legal meaning of genocide refers to the international treaty on genocide, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

The practice of negative racial aspects of eugenics, after World War II, fell within the definition of the new international crime of genocide, set out in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

While a precise definition varies among genocide scholars, a legal definition is found in the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide ( CPPCG ).

* Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide at Law-Ref. org — fully indexed and crosslinked with other documents

* Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

* Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence against Women

* European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment ( CPT )

# REDIRECT Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter

Water related conventions are United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification ( UNCCD ), International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and Ramsar Convention.

On 26 November 1987 the member states of the Council of Europe, meeting at Strasbourg, adopted the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment ( ECPT ).

The Convention set up the Committee for the Prevention of Torture to oversee compliance with its provisions.

The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture, citing Article 1 of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture, states that it will, " by means of visits, examine the treatment of persons deprived of their liberty with a view to strengthening, if necessary, the protection of such persons from torture and from inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment ".

1986 / 18 ; 1987 / 25 ; 1988 / 28 ; 1989 / 16 ; 1990 / 19 ; " Fiftieth Anniversary of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide ", 1998 / 10 ; and " Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide ", 1999 / 67.

On May 2, 1951 there was a Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to Taxes on Income.

UN General Assembly Resolution n. 260 9 December 1948, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, was the first step towards the establishment of an international permanent criminal tribunal with jurisdiction on crimes yet to be defined in international treaties.

While Article 6 does not prohibit the death penalty, it restricts its application to the " most serious crimes " and forbids it to be used on children and pregnant women or in a manner contrary to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

* The Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources ( 1980 )

The maritime part of the region constitutes the area of application of the international Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources ( CCAMLR ), where for technical reasons the Convention uses an approximation of the Convergence line by means of a line joining specified points along parallels of latitude and meridians of longitude.

Costa Rica is party to many environmental treaties, including the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on Environmental Modification, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Montreal Protocol, the Ramsar Convention, the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, the Desertification Convention, the Endangered Species Convention, the Basel Convention, the Convention on the Law of the Sea, the Convention on Marine Dumping, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

It has signed but not ratified the Convention on Marine Life Conservation and the Kyoto Protocol.

party to: Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes ( Basel Convention ), Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection ( Montreal Protocol ), Ship Pollution ( MARPOL 73 / 78 ), Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands ( Ramsar Convention ), Whaling

China is a party to the Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, the Antarctic Treaty, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Climate Change treaty, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, the Endangered Species treaty, the Hazardous Wastes treaty, the Law of the Sea, the International Tropical Timber Agreements of 1983 and 1994, the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, and agreements on Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, and Wetlands protection.

Senegal has signed, but not ratified the Convention on Marine Dumping.

* Marine Life Conservation ( Convention on Fishing and Conservation of Living Resources of the High Seas )

* November 12 – London Convention: Marine dumping of radioactive waste is outlawed.