National Implementation of IHL: Documentation
States party to international humanitarian law treaties must take certain legal and administrative measures to comply with the obligations they have undertaken. This section deals with various topics which are covered by the treaties and are the focus of Advisory Service promotional activities, including topics that have been highlighted by the recent adoption of international instruments, thus creating a new incentive for states to adopt implementation measures.
- 1954 Convention for the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict and its protocols - Factsheet
- 1954 Convention for the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict and its protocols - Ratification kit
- Protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict - Model law
- Practical advice for the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict - Guidelines
- Protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict - Report
- New rules for the protection of cultural property in armed conflict - Article
- Operational and commercial and other non-operational issues involving the use of the emblems - Study
- The protection of the red cross, red crescent and red crystal emblems - Factsheet
- National legislation on the use and protection of the emblem - Model law
- Third Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 – Ratification kit
Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols
- 1977 Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 – Ratification kit
- Third Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 – Ratification kit
- Geneva Conventions (Consolidation) Act – Model law
- Geneva Conventions Act (for common law States) - Model law
- Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 - Factsheet
- Implementation of rules protecting the provision of health care in armed conflicts and other emergencies - Guidance tool
- Respecting and protecting health care in armed conflicts and in situations not covered by international humanitarian law - Factsheet
- Domestic normative frameworks for the protection of health care - Report
- Protecting Health Care from Violence - legislative Checklist
- General principles of international criminal law – Factsheet
- Universal jurisdiction over war crimes – Factsheet
- Statute of the International Criminal Court – Ratification kit
- Statute of the International Criminal Court – Factsheet
- Statute of the International Criminal Court – Article 8
- Issues raised regarding the Rome Statute of the ICC by national Constitutional Courts, Supreme Courts and Councils of State – Compendium
- International criminal justice: The institutions – Factsheet
- War crimes under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and their source in IHL – Table
International humanitarian law - general information
International humanitarian law implementation
- Implementing international humanitarian law : from law to action - Factsheet
- Guidelines for assessing the compatibility between national law and obligations under treaties of IHL - Factsheet
- The exchange of information on national measures to implement IHL - Factsheet
- ICRC database on national measures implementing international humanitarian law - Factsheet
- Means of personal identification - Facsheet
- National Committees for the implementation of international humanitarian law - Factsheet
- Islamic Law and IHL - Factsheet
- Islamic law and international humanitarian law - An introduction to the main principles
- IHL and Islam - An overview
- The Intersection of IHL and Islamic Law - An interview
- IHL and Islamic law in the protection of Children in Armed conflicts - Article
- Management of the dead from Islamic law and international humanitarian law perspectives: Considerations for humanitarian forensics - Article
- International Committee of The Red-Cross(ICRC) Management of the Dead under Islamic Law -Article
- Management of the dead under Islamic law - Publication
- First global expert workshop on IHl and Islamic Law in contemporary armed conflits - Article
- Experts' workshop report on IHL and Islamic Law in Contemporary Armed Conflicts - Report
- Indonesia: ICRC strengthens collaboration with religious circles - Article
- Australia: Why the ICRC is talking about the Islamic Laws of War in Australia - Article
- Muslim Scholars Present Their Perspectives on Islamic Law and IHL - Videos
- Obligations in terms of penal repression - Factsheet
- Penal repression: Punishing war crimes – Factsheet
- Methods of incorporating punishment into criminal law - Factsheet
- Command responsibility and failure to act – Factsheet
- Criminal procedure – Factsheet
- Judicial guarantees and safeguards – Factsheet
- Cooperation in extradition and judicial assistance in criminal matters – Factsheet
- Elements to render sanctions more effective – Factsheet
- National measures to repress violations of international humanitarian law (civil law systems) - Report
- Analysis of the punishments applicable to international crimes (war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide) in domestic law and practice–Report
- Role of domestic jurisdictions in the implementation of IHL, law and practice - Report
- Amnesties and IHL : Purpose and scope - Factsheet
Torture and other forms of ill-treatment
Use of force in law enforcement
Anti-personnel mines
- 1997 Convention on the prohibition of anti-personnel mines and on their destruction – Factsheet
- Model of legislation to implement the 1997 Convention on the prohibition of anti-personnel mines - Model law
- Development of national legislation to implement the Convention on the prohibition of anti-personnel mines - Information kit
- Domestic Measures to Implement the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention - Checklist
Arms trade treaty
Chemical and biological weapons
- 1993 Chemical weapons convention - Factsheet
- 1972 Convention on the prohibition of bacteriological weapons and their destruction – Factsheet
- Toxic chemicals as weapons for law enforcement: a threat to life and international law? – Synthesis and summary
- The biological and toxin weapons crimes act - Model law
Cluster munitions
- 2008 Convention on cluster munitions - Factsheet
- 2008 Convention on cluster munitions - Ratification kit
- 2008 Convention on cluster munitions - Model law
- Domestic Measures to implement the Convention on Cluster Munitions - Checklist
Conventional weapons
- 1980 Convention on certain conventional weapons - Factsheet
1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and its Protocols - Ratification kit