A Timeline of Human Rights
(Under Construction)
August 27,
1928
Kellog-Briand Pact
A treaty “providing for the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy.” This it certainly did not achieve, but it was arguably significant for later developments in international law. Technically, it remains in force.
After negotiations, it was signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by 11 states. (Australia, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Germany, India, the Irish Free State, Italy, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States.) Four states added their support before it was proclaimed (Poland, Belgium, France, and Japan.)
It went into effect on July 24, 1929. Sixty-two nations ultimately signed it.