The Laws of Armed Conflicts : A Collection of Conventions, Resolutions and Other Documents; Fourth Revised and Completed Edition.

Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Explanatory notes -- List of reproduced documents in chronological order -- Abbreviations -- I. GENERAL RULES CONCERNING THE CONDUCT OF HOSTILITIES -- 1. Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field. Prepared by Francis Lieber, promulgated as General Orders No. 100 by President Lincoln, 24 April 1863 -- Section I. Martial Law &amp -- #8211 -- Military jurisdiction &amp -- #8211 -- Military necessity &amp -- #8211 -- Retaliation -- Section II. Public and private property of the enemy &amp -- #8211 -- Protection of persons, and especially of women, of religion, the arts and sciences &amp -- #8211 -- Punishment of crimes against the inhabitants of hostile countries -- Section III. Deserters &amp -- #8211 -- Prisoners of war &amp -- #8211 -- Hostages &amp -- #8211 -- Booty on the battlefield -- Section IV. Partisans &amp -- #8211 -- Armed enemies not belonging to the hostile army &amp -- #8211 -- Scouts &amp -- #8211 -- Armed prowlers &amp -- #8211 -- War-rebels -- Section V. Safe-conduct &amp -- #8211 -- Spies &amp -- #8211 -- War-traitors &amp -- #8211 -- Captured messengers -- Section VI. Exchange of prisoners &amp -- #8211 -- Flags of truce &amp -- #8211 -- Abuse of the flag of truce &amp -- #8211 -- Flags of protection -- Section VII. Parole -- Section VIII. Armistice &amp -- #8211 -- Capitulation -- Section IX. Assassination -- Section X. Insurrection &amp -- #8211 -- Civil war &amp -- #8211 -- Rebellion -- 2. Brussels Conference of 1874 -- I. Final Protocol. Signed at Brussels, 27 August 1874 -- II. Project of an International Declaration concerning the Laws and Customs of War -- 3. The Laws of War on Land. Manual published by the Institute of International Law (Oxford Manual). Adopted by the Institute of International Law at Oxford, 9 September 1880 -- Preface.

Part I. General principles -- Part II. Application of general principles -- Part III. Penal sanction -- 4. Final Act of the International Peace Conference. Signed at The Hague, 29 July 1899 -- 5. Final Act of the Second International Peace Conference. Signed at The Hague, 18 October 1907 -- 6. Convention (III) relative to the Opening of Hostilities. Signed at The Hague, 18 October 1907 -- Purpose of Convention -- Plenipotentiaries -- Notice of commencing hostilities -- Notice to neutral Powers -- Effect on contracting Powers -- Ratification -- Deposit at The Hague -- Certified copies to Powers -- Non-signatory Powers may adhere -- Notification of Intent -- Communication to other Powers -- Effect of ratification -- Denunciation -- Notifying Power only affected -- Register of ratifications -- Signing -- Deposit of original -- 7. Convention (II) with Respect to the Laws and Customs of War on Land. Signed at The Hague, 29 July 1899 &amp -- #8212 -- 8. Convention (IV) respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land. Signed at The Hague, 18 October 1907 -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Purpose of Convention -- Plenipotentiaries -- Instructions to armed land forces -- Powers bound -- Penalty for violating regulations -- Prior Convention replaced -- Continuance of former Convention -- Ratification -- Deposit at The Hague -- Certified copies to Powers -- Adherence of non-signatory Powers -- Notification of intent -- Communication to other Powers -- Effect of ratification -- Denunciation -- Notifying Power only affected -- Register of ratifications -- Signing -- Untitled -- Annex to the Conventions: Regulations respecting the laws and customs of war on land (1899 and 1907) -- II. METHODS AND MEANS OF WARFARE -- 9. Declaration Renouncing the Use, in Time of War, of Explosive Projectiles under 400 Grammes Weight. Signed at St. Petersburg, 29 November/11 December 1868.

10. Declaration (IV, 2) concerning Asphyxiating Gases. Signed at The Hague, 29 July 1899 -- 11. Declaration (IV, 3) concerning Expanding Bullets. Signed at The Hague, 29 July 1899 -- 12. Treaty relating to the Use of Submarines and Noxious Gases in Warfare. Signed at Washington, 6 February 1922 -- 13. Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare -- I. Geneva Protocol. Signed at Geneva on 17 June 1925 -- II. Final Act of the Conference of States Parties to the 1925 Geneva Protocol and Other Interested States on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. Paris, 7&amp -- #8211 -- 11 January 1989 -- 14. Declaration on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear and Thermo-Nuclear Weapons. Resolution 1653 (XVI) of the United Nations General Assembly adopted on 24 November 1961 -- 15. Questions of Chemical and Bacteriological (Biological) Weapons. Resolution 2603 A (XXIV) of the United Nations General Assembly adopted on 16 December 1969 -- 16. Convention on the Prohibition of Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction. Opened for signature on 10 April 1972 at London, Moscow and Washington -- 17. Non-use of Force in International Relations and Permanent Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons. Resolution 2936 (XXVII) of the United Nations General Assembly adopted on 29 November 1972 -- 18. Convention on the Prohibition of Military or any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques. Adopted by resolution 31/72 of the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1976.

19. Final Act of the United Nations Conference on Prohibitions and Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects. Signed at Geneva, 10 October 1980 -- 20. 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. Adopted at Geneva, 10 October 1980 -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Protocol on Non-Detectable Fragments (Protocol I) -- Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices (Protocol II) -- Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices (Protocol II as Amended on 3 May 1996) -- Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Incendiary Weapons (Protocol III) -- Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons (Protocol IV, 13 October 1995) -- 21. Resolution on Small-Calibre Weapon Systems. Adopted by the United Nations Conference on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons, 28 September 1979 -- 22. Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction. Done at Paris on 13 January 1993 -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Preamble -- General obligations -- Definitions and criteria -- Declarations -- Chemical weapons -- Chemical weapons production facilities -- Activities not prohibeted under this Convention -- National implementation measures -- The Organization -- Consultations, cooperation and fact-finding -- Assistance and Protection against chemical weapons -- Economic and technological development -- Measures to redress a situation and to ensure compliance including sanctions -- Relation to other international agreements -- Settlement of disputes -- Amendments.

Duration and withdrawal -- Status of the annex -- Signature -- Ratification -- Accession -- Entry into force -- Reservations -- Depositary -- Authentic texts -- Annexes -- 23. Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction. Adopted at Oslo on 18 September 1997 -- Preamble -- General obligations -- Definitions -- Exceptions -- Destruction of stockpiled anti-personnel mines -- Destruction of anti-personnel mines in mined areas -- International cooperation and assistance -- Transparency measures -- Facilitation and clarification of compliance -- National implementation measures -- Settlement of disputes -- Meetings of the States Parties -- Review conferences -- Amendments -- Costs -- Signature -- Ratification, acceptance, approval or accession -- Entry into force -- Provisional application -- Reservations -- Duration and withdrawal -- Depositary -- Authentic texts -- 23A.Guidelines for Military Manuals and Instructions on the Protection of the Environment in Times of Armed Conflict. Prepared by the ICRC and recommended for dissemination by resolution 49/50 of the UN General Assembly, 9 December 1994 -- III. AIR WARFARE -- 24. Declaration (IV, 1) to Prohibit, for the Term of Five Years, the Launching of Projectiles and Explosive from Balloons, and Other Methods of a Similar Nature. Signed at The Hague, 29 July 1899 &amp -- #8212 -- 25. Declaration (XIV) Prohibiting the Discharge of Projectiles and Explosives from Balloons. Signed at The Hague, 18 October 1907 -- 26. Hague Rules concerning the Control of Wireless Telegraphy in Time of War and Air Warfare. Drafted by a Commission of Jurists at The Hague, 11 December 1922 &amp -- #8211 -- 17 February 1923 -- Part I. Rules for the control of wireless telegraphy in time of war -- Part II. Rules of air warfare.

IV. PROTECTION OF POPULATIONS AGAINST EFFECTS OF HOSTILITIES.

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