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Victims of Armed Conflicts
Hague Convention on Hospital Ships, 1904
21.12.1904
Final Act of the Geneva Conference, 1949
12.08.1949
Geneva Convention (I) on Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field,1949
12.08.1949
Geneva Convention (II) on Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked of Armed Forces at Sea, 1949
12.08.1949
Geneva Convention (III) on Prisoners of War, 1949
12.08.1949
Geneva Convention (IV) on Civilians, 1949
12.08.1949
Resolutions of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1949
12.08.1949
Tehran Resolution on Human Rights in Armed Conflict, 1968
12.05.1968
United Nations Resolution on Human Rights in Armed Conflicts, 1968
19.12.1968
Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977
10.06.1977
Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977
08.06.1977
Annex (I) AP (I), as amended in 1993
30.11.1993
Annex (I) AP (I), 1977
08.06.1977
Annex (II) AP (I), 1977
08.06.1977
Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977
08.06.1977
Resolutions of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977
10.06.1977
Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989
20.11.1989
Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict, 2000
25.05.2000
Additional Protocol (III) to the Geneva Conventions, 2005
08.12.2005
Methods and Means of Warfare
Hague Convention (II) on the Laws and Customs of War on Land, 1899
29.07.1899
Hague Declaration (IV,2) concerning Asphyxiating Gases, 1899
29.07.1899
Hague Declaration (IV,3) concerning Expanding Bullets, 1899
29.07.1899
Hague Convention (IV) on War on Land and its Annexed Regulations, 1907
18.10.1907
Hague Convention (IX) on Bombardment by Naval Forces, 1907
18.10.1907
Hague Declaration (XIV) on Explosives from Balloons, 1907
18.10.1907
Geneva Protocol on Asphyxiating or Poisonous Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods, 1925
17.06.1925
Institute of International Law Resolution on Military Objectives, 1969
09.09.1969
Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972
16.12.1971
Resolution on Small-Calibre Weapon Systems, 1979
28.09.1979
Final Act on the Conference on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980
10.10.1980
Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980
10.10.1980
CCW Protocol (I) on Non-Detectable Fragments, 1980
10.10.1980
CCW Protocol (II) prohibiting Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices, 1980
10.10.1980
CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980
10.10.1980
Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993
13.01.1993
CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995
13.10.1995
CCW Protocol (II) prohibiting Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices, amended, 1996
03.05.1996
Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997
18.09.1997
Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), amended Article 1, 2001
21.12.2001
CCW Protocol (V) on Explosive Remnants of War, 2003
28.11.2003
Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008
30.05.2008
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, 2017
07.07.2017
Naval and Airwarfare
Hague Convention (VI) on Enemy Merchant Ships, 1907
18.10.1907
Hague Convention (VII) on Conversion of Merchant Ships, 1907
18.10.1907
Hague Convention (VIII) on Submarine Mines, 1907
18.10.1907
Hague Convention (IX) on Bombardment by Naval Forces, 1907
18.10.1907
Hague Convention (XI) on Restrictions of the Right of Capture, 1907
18.10.1907
Hague Convention (XIII) on Neutral Powers in Naval War, 1907
18.10.1907
Havana Convention on Maritime Neutrality, 1928
20.02.1928
London Treaty on Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armaments, 1930
22.04.1930
Procès-verbal on Submarine Warfare of the Treaty of London, 1936
06.11.1936
San Remo Manual on Armed Conflicts at Sea, 1994
12.06.1994
Cultural Property
Roerich Pact for the Protection of Artistic and Scientific Institutions, 1935
15.04.1935
Final Act on the Protection of Cultural Property, The Hague, 1954
14.05.1954
Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954
14.05.1954
Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954
14.05.1954
Resolutions on Cultural Property, The Hague, 1954
14.05.1954
Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1999
26.03.1999
Criminal Repression
Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1945
08.08.1945
United Nations Principles for the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1946
11.12.1946
Principles of International Law recognized by the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1950
29.07.1950
Convention Statutory Limitations to War Crimes, 1968
26.11.1968
European Convention on Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes, 1974
25.01.1974
Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, 1993
25.05.1993
Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, 1994
08.11.1994
Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998
17.07.1998
Statute of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, 2002
16.01.2002
Amendment to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, amended article 8, 2010
10.06.2010
Amendment to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, articles 8bis, 15bis and 15ter, 2010
11.06.2010
Amendment to article 124 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
26.11.2015
Amendment to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, amended article 8 (Weapons which use microbial or other biological agents, or toxins), 2017
14.12.2017
Amendment to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, amended article 8 (Weapons the primary effect of which is to injure by fragments undetectable by x-rays in the human body), 2017
14.12.2017
Amendment to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, amended article 8 (Blinding laser weapons), 2017
14.12.2017
Amendment to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, amended article 8 (Intentionally using starvation of civilians), 2019
06.12.2019
Other treaties relating to IHL
Hague Convention (III) on the Opening of Hostilites, 1907
18.10.1907
Hague Convention (V) on Neutral Powers in case of War on Land, 1907
18.10.1907
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948
09.12.1948
Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976
10.12.1976
OAU Convention on Mercenaries, 1977
03.07.1977
Convention on Mercenaries, 1989
04.12.1989
Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance, 2006
20.12.2006
Arms Trade Treaty, 2013
02.04.2013
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