CIL Database of ASEAN and International Law Documents

The CIL Documents Database is a free, user-friendly, internet resource of selected ASEAN and International Law Documents. More than 200 selected ASEAN documents and 170 International Law documents are now included in the database.

The search engine is located in the box on the right side of your screen on this page and on the CIL home page. It enables users to search for documents by category, years, and/or by keywords.

Examples are:

  1. To find international law documents on human rights, choose “IL – Human Rights” from the sub-category drop-down menu.
  2. To find ASEAN constituent documents, select “ASEAN Constituent Documents” in the sub-category drop-down menu.
  3. To locate ASEAN documents on political/security matters adopted after 1 January 2005, select “ASEAN Documents” under category, “ASEAN Political-Security Community” under sub-category, and “2005” under “From” in the year drop-down menu.

Alternatively, you can search for documents using only the keyword function.

Examples are:

  1. To search for ASEAN documents relating to the South China Sea, enter “South China Sea” in the keyword field.
  2. To search for ASEAN documents on the environment, enter “environment” in the keyword field.
  3. To search the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, enter “Treaties” in the keyword field.

Search results are displayed as a list of the full titles of the documents arranged in reverse chronological order.  When you click on a document title in the search results, a Summary Template for that document will open. The Summary Template contains basic information about that Document and a link to the text of the document on an external website.

The Summary Templates for the most important documents also contain links to CIL-formatted versions of the full text in both Word and PDF. The CIL text of the document also contains a Table of Contents. If you Ctrl+Click on any item in the Table of Contents, it will take you directly to the text of that article in the document.

For background Information prepared by CIL on ASEAN and ASEAN Documents, please click on the following: