Each country party to a bilateral (or multilateral) treaty or agreement keeps an official copy of the treaty in their official language(s) as part of their official records. While some countries have published print series of their treaties, many do/did not and so texts are/were difficult to find.
Use the indexes and guides at the Home tab to help you find these series. WorldCat can also be used to locate a print treaty series for a particular country or region.
Increasingly, however, governments (as well as regional organizatons--see mulitnational treaties & agreements box) are putting their treaty texts online. You can use the International Treaties Collection on Worldlii to find official electronic versions of national treaties. Be aware, however, that what is online may only be selected texts or only the texts since a certain date.
See, for instance:
Official texts of multilateral international treaties are each kept by the body which serves as the secretariat for that treaty. Use the various treaty indexes in Indexes and Guides at the Home tab to help you locate treaty texts.
Use the International Treaties Collection on Worldlii and the Fletcher School Multilaterals Project at Tufts to find other multinational treaty texts.
You can also find texts of treaties and agreements on websites of NGOs and International Organizations which have an interest in a particular subject matter.
Examples:
See International Human Rights Law Research LibGuide for more help in finding those materials and look at the other Guides at the Home tab for more such subject collections.
