CHAPTER THREE: DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL GOVERNANCE The UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage; United Nations Convention against Corruption; Four International Labour Organisation (ILO) conventions on labour law; Four additional and optional United Nations protocols on human rights; and Two international treaties on civil and political rights and on economic, social and cultural rights. 111. Within the framework of the African Union, the CSAR shows that Algeria has signed and ratified the: African Charter on Human and Peoples‟ Rights and the OAU Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa; African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child; Cultural Charter for Africa; African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption; Treaty establishing the African Economic Community (AEC); Protocol relating to the Establishment of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union; Treaty establishing the Arab Maghreb Union (UMA); Protocol to the Treaty instituting the AEC as it concerns the African Parliament and; Protocol to the African Charter of Human and Peoples‟ Rights on the establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples‟ Rights. 112. Algeria has already ratified ten international conventions on the fight against terrorism, explosives and organised crime, as well as the Protocol on the Repression of Unlawful Acts and Violence. It has ratified, with reservations, three international conventions on the suppression of attacks by means of explosives, the suppression of the financing of terrorism, and the fight against organised crime. In addition, the Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts of Violence at Airports Serving International Civil Aviation, which is complementary to the Montreal Convention of 23 September 1971, is in the process of being ratified. 113. The CSAR indicates that Algeria has applied itself to aligning its internal legal system with undertakings arising from its adherence to these international legal instruments. It should be mentioned that their implementation has not met with any particular constraints in terms of capacity. 57

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