Major International Humanitarian Law

Statements and treaties, in chronological order:

Title, place of promulgation or deposit, date, short form in italics.

Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field. April 24, 1863. Lieber Code

Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field. Geneva, August 22, 1864. 1864 Geneva Convention

Declaration Renouncing the Use, in Time of War, of Certain Explosive Projectiles. St. Petersburg, November 29 - December 11, 1868.
St. Petersburg Declaration of 1868

Convention II with Respect to the Laws and Customs of War on Land and its annex: Regulations concerning the Laws and Customs of War on Land.
The Hague, July 29, 1899. 1899 Hague Convention or 1899 Hague Regulations

Convention IV respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land and its annex: Regulations concerning the Laws and Customs of War on Land. The Hague, October 18, 1907. 1907 Hague Conventions or 1907 Hague Regulations

Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare. Geneva, June 17, 1925.
1925 Geneva Protocol

Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armies in the Field. Geneva, July 27, 1929. 1929 Geneva Convention

Agreement for the Prosecution and Punishment of the Major War Criminals of the European Axis, and Charter of the International Military Tribunal. London, August 8, 1945. Nuremberg Charter

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. United Nations, December 9, 1948. Genocide Convention
Convention I for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field. Geneva, August 12, 1949.
First Geneva Convention (of 1949) or GCI

Convention II for the Amelioration of the Conditions of Wounded, Sick, and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea. Geneva, August 12, 1949.
Second Geneva Convention (of 1949) or GCII

Convention III Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. Geneva, August 12, 1949. Third Geneva Convention (of 1949) or GCIII

Convention IV Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Geneva, August 12, 1949. Fourth Geneva Convention (of 1949) or GCIV

Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. The Hague, May 14, 1954.
1954 Convention on Cultural Property

Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction. Opened for Signature at London, Moscow, and Washington. April 10, 1972.
Biological Weapons Convention or BWC

Protocol I Additional to the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts. Geneva, June 8, 1977. Additional Protocol I or API

Protocol II Additional to the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts. Geneva, June 8, 1977. Additional Protocol II or APII

1980 Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons That May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects. United Nations, October 10, 1980.
1980 Conventional Weapons Convention or CCW

Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction. Paris, January 13, 1993.
1993 Chemical Weapons Convention

Statute of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia Since 1991. United Nations, May 25, 1993.
Yugoslavia Tribunal Statute or ICTY

Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighboring States between January 1, 1994 and December 31, 1994. United Nations, November 8, 1994.
Rwanda Tribunal Statute or ICTR

Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices. United Nations, as amended May 3, 1996.
Protocol II of the 1980 Conventional Weapons Convention

Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti- Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction. United Nations, September 18, 1997.
Ottawa Treaty
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. United Nations, July 17, 1998.
Rome Statute or ICC Statute

Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. The Hague, March 26, 1999.
Second Cultural Property Protocol
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Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict. May 25, 2000.
Childrens Rights Protocol
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Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War, November 28, 2003.
Protocol V to the 1980 Conventional Weapons Convention