1. When did a treaty enter into force?
2. Which treaties are in force for a given state?
3. Which states are party to a given treaty?
4. What treaties are related to a particular subject (using keywords assigned by IUCN)?
5. How do I use the cart?
6. How do I generate a status matrix?

3. Which states are party to a given treaty? See a video

Step 1: Select "treaty locator" from the selection of links on the top left of any screen.

Step 2: On the treaty locator, find a treaty to work with by filling in the "Search Title" or "Search Text" field or by using any one of the other methods provided on this page. Hit the submit button to get results. If you choose to get a list of all treaties in our database, just press the icon.

For this example, we'll search for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test - Ban Treaty by filling in the "Search Title" field and then hit the submit button near the bottom center of page [you may have to scroll down to see it].

Step 3: The next screen shows the result of our search. One result is returned since we are only interested in this one treaty. Our page should now look something like this:

You can get a summary of information on this treaty by expanding the record on this screen. Click the blue triangle " " just to the left of the treaty title. Your screen should now look like this:

We see now that our treaty has 47 parties. Click "47" for a list of entities that are parties to this treaty. The screen looks something like this: