Documents on the Laws of War

1856 Paris Declaration respecting maritime law; 1868 St Petersburg declaration renouncing the use, in time of war, of explosive projectiles under 400 grammes weight; 1899 Hague Declaration II concerning asphyxiating gases; 1899 Hague Declaration III concerning expanding bullets; 1907 Hague Convention IV respecting the laws and customs of war on land; 1907 Hague Convention V respecting the rights and duties of neutral powers and persons in case of war on land; 1907 Hague Convention VI relating to the status of enemy merchant ships at the outbreak of hostility; 1907 Hague Convention VII relating to the conversion of merchant ships into warships; 1907 Hague Convention VIII relative to the laying of automatic submarine contact mines; 1907 Hague Convention XI relative to certain restrictions with regard to the exercise of the right of capture in naval war; 1907 Hague Convention XIII concerning the rights and duties of neutral powers in naval war; 1923 Hague rules of aerial warfare; 1925 Geneva protocol for the prohibition of the use in war of asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and of bacteriological methods of warfare; 1936 London proces-verbal relating to the rules of submarine warfare set forth in part IV of the Treaty of London of 22nd April 1930; 1946 judgement of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg - extracts on crimes against international law; 1948 United Nations convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide; 1949 Geneva Convention I for the amelioration of the condition of the wounded and sick in armed forces in the field; 1949 Geneva Convention II for the amelioration of the condition of wounded, sick and shipwrecked members of armed forces at sea; 1949 Geneva Convention III relative to the treatment of prisoners of war; 1949 Geneva Convention IV relative to the protection of civilian persons in time of war; 1954 Hague protocol for the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict; 1971 Zagreb Resolution of the Institute of International Law on conditions of application of humanitarian rules of armed conflict to hostilities in which United Nations forces may be engaged; 1977 United Nations Convention on the prohibition of military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques; 1977 Geneva Protocol I and II additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12th August 1949, and relating to the protection of victims of non-international armed conflicts; 1978 Red Cross fundamental rules of international humanitarian law applicable in armed conflicts; 1981 United Nations Convention on prohibitions or restrictions on the use of certain conventional weapons which may be deemed to be excessively injurious or to have indiscriminate effects. Appendix: emblems and signs.