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22GHANA: END IMPUNITY THROUGH UNIVERSAL JURISDICTIONNo Safe Haven Series No. 10CHART I. CRIMES UNDER NATIONAL LAW OF INTERNATIONAL CONCERNCRIME ANDTREATY 76SIGNEDRELEVANTTREATYRATIFIED/ACCEDEDTORELEVANTTREATYDEFINED INNATIONALLAWUNIVERSALJURISDICTION(ratified) 77Psychotropic Substances- 1971 Convention21 February197110 April1990(ratified)Narcotics Act,sects. 1 - 6 &9Courts Act, sect.56 (4) (i) (onlyas it applies tonarcoticstrafficking)Courts Act, sect.56 (4) (l)(foreign publicofficer)**Courts Act,sect. 56 (4) (n)(catchall)Attacks on Aviation -–1971 MontrealConvention18 July1975(acceded)Criminal Code,sect. 195Courts Act, sect.56 (4) (h) (onlyas it applies tohijacking)Courts Act sect.56 (4) (l)(foreign publicofficer)**Courts Act,sect. 56 (4) (n)(catchall)Internationally ProtectedPersons - 1973Convention25 April1975(acceded)NO**Courts Act,sect. 56 (4) (n)(catchall)Hostage Taking -: 1979Convention10NovemberNO**Courts Act,sect. 56 (4) (n)Treaties: Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft Signed at The Hague on 16 December1970 (http://www2.icao.int/en/leb/List%20of%20Parties/Hague_EN.pdf); United Nations Office on Drugs andCrime, A Review of the Legal Regime against Terrorism in West and Central Africa Working Document, 2008-2009, pg. 98; United Nations General Assembly, Report of the Secretary-General on Measures to EliminateInternational Terrorism, A/63/173, 25 July 2008, pp. 28 & 23.Amnesty International November 2012 Index: AFR 28/004/2012