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UPSC Prelims 2026 GS Paper — Question 89

Question

Which of the following international conventions have not been ratified by India ? 1. Employment Policy Convention 2. Abolition of Forced Labour Convention 3. International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 4. Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 5. Convention on Reduction of Statelessness Select the answer using the code given below :

(a)2 and 4
(b)1 and 2
(c)3 and 4 only
(d)3, 4 and 5

Subject

International Relations

Topic Reference

International Relations — International conventions and India

Defective — expected to be dropped

UnlockIAS evidence-based analysis

Only items 3 (Migrant Workers Convention, ICRMW 1990) and 5 (Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, 1961) are unratified by India. No option lists exactly {3, 5}: (a) and (b) name only ratified conventions; (c) wrongly drops 5 and adds 4; (d) carries both 3 and 5 but wrongly adds 4. So there is no correct answer. The likely error is confusing Geneva Convention IV (Civilians, 1949), which India ratified in 1950, with its Additional Protocols of 1977 and 2005, which India has not ratified. The question should be dropped. On UPSC practice the two marks are then redistributed proportionally across the remaining valid questions (the paper is rescaled), not handed out as a flat two marks to everyone.

If a key answer is forced rather than dropped

(d) — it is the only option that carries both genuinely unratified conventions (3 and 5), though it wrongly adds the ratified Geneva Convention IV.

ILO NORMLEX (C122, C105 ratification records)UN Treaty Collection, Ch. IV-13 (ICRMW) and Ch. V-4 (Statelessness)ICRC IHL database; Geneva Conventions Act, 1960

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