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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) providesĪ database containing IHL documents and treaties and listing which states Of Children in Armed Conflict, the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention, theġ997 Ottawa Convention on Anti-Personnel Mines, and the 2008 Cluster MunitionsĬonvention. Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement Of Cultural Property in Armed Conflict and its 1999 Protocol, the 1980Ĭonvention on Conventional Weapons and its Protocols, the 2000 Optional

Geneva Protocol on Gas Warfare, the 1954 Hague Convention on the Protection IHL is further supplemented by such treaties as the 1925 Today, IHL is codified largely in the Hague Conventions ofġ8, the Geneva Conventions of 1949, and their Additional Protocols The necessary and sufficient steps to bring a treaty into force are boundīy its terms. Petersburg Declaration, the 1874 Brussels Declaration, and

Important early formulations of IHL include the 1863 (First) Geneva Convention, The 1863 Lieber Code is generally recognizedĪs the first modern codification of customary laws of land warfare. When they deemed that the other party's resort to war was lawful.Ĭustom, and general principles. With IHL may be significantly diminished if parties complied with it only Jus in bello), IHL is distinct from the legal regime enshrined in ArticleĢ(4) of the UN Charter governing the resort to force (known in Latin as As the law in effect during armed conflict (known in Latin as the The application of IHL is not dependent on a declaration or formal recognition IHL applies once there is an armed conflict.Īrmed conflicts may be international or non-international in character. Principally by protecting persons who are not or who are no longer participatingĭirectly in hostilities and by restricting the means and methods of warfare. IHL can be generally defined as the laws and customs aiming to limit theĮffects of armed conflict for humanitarian reasons. (LOAC) - is a legal framework applicable to situations of armed conflict. which is also known as the law of war and the law of armed conflict