International counter-terrorism measures
The international community's legal response to help prevent terrorist acts and bring to justice those who commit them
Australia has signed or ratified, or is working towards this, for the following international counter-terrorism instruments:
- Convention on Offences and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft (Tokyo, 1963)
- Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft (The Hague, 1970)
- Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation (Sabotage) (Montreal, 1971)
- Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts of Violence at Airports Serving International Civil Aviation (Montreal, 1988)
- Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (Vienna, 1980)
- International Convention against the Taking of Hostages (New York, 1979)
- Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents (New York, 1973)
- International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings (New York, 1997)
- International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism (New York, 1999)
- International Convention for the Marking of Plastic Explosives for the Purposes of Detection (Montreal, 1991)
- Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Maritime Navigation (Rome, 1988)
- Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf (Rome, 1988)
- International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (New York 2005)
- 2005 Amendment to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material
- Protocol of 2005 to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation
- Protocol of 2005 to the Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms located on the Continental Shelf
- The Convention on the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Relating to International Civil Aviation
- The Protocol Supplementary to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft