Search help

The treaty database uses an AND search and searches the FULL TEXT of all the treaties in the data base. The search engine will return hits that contain all the words in the search input. The search does not support truncation (such as * or ?). Using two or three search words will improve the precision of the results.

discrimination women workforce

Excluding words

Putting a minus sign (-) before a search term will exclude any results that contain this term.

discrimination -trade

Phrase search

Enclosing a phrase in double quotation marks (" ") will return hits that contain the entire phrase.

"freedom of speech"

Searching the titles of treaties

If you type title: followed by your search term, you will receive hits that contain the word in the title of the treaty.

title:refugee