CHAPTER THREE: DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL GOVERNANCE _____________________________________________________________________ Table no. 3.3: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Name and date of adoption UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions Date of coming into force Date of deposit of instrument of succession, ratification or accession by Burkina Faso 18 March 2007 Decree 2006-51 of 5 July 2006 (OJ BF No. 32 of 10 August 2006) October 1998 20 April 2006 24 April 2005 20 October 2005 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage 17 October 2003 Table no. 3.4: In te rn a tio n a l h u m a n ita ria n la w Name and date of adoption Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field Date of coming into force Date of deposit of instrument of succession, ratification and accession by Burkina Faso 21 October 1950 7 November 1961 1 March 1999 16 September 1998 30 July 1998 26 November 2003 12 August 1949 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction 18 September 1977 Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons (Protocol IV) 13 October 1995 80