Implementação nacional de DIH: documentação
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.
Children / Civil defence / Cultural property / Dissemination of IHL / Emblem / Environment / Fact finding commission / Geneva Conventions / Health / Internally displaced persons / International criminal law / International humanitarian law (IHL) /IHL implementation / The missing / Penal repression / Sexual violence / Torture / Use of force in law enforcement / Weapons /
Children
- Model legislative provisions on the recruitment or use of children in armed conflict - Model law (PDF)
- Domestic implementation of a comprehensive system of protection for children associated with armed forces or armed groups – Guiding principles (PDF)
- Legal protection of children in armed conflict – Factsheet (PDF)
Civil defence
Cultural property
- 1954 Convention for the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict and its protocols - Factsheet (PDF)
- 1954 Convention for the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict and its protocols - Ratification kit (PDF)
- Protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict - Model law (PDF)
- 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 (PDF)
- Cairo declaration on the protection of cultural property - Declaration (PDF)
- New rules for the protection of cultural property in armed conflict - Article
Dissemination of IHL
- The obligation to disseminate international humanitarian law – Factsheet (PDF)
- Legal advisers in armed forces – Factsheet (PDF)
- Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the implementation of international humanitarian law - Guiding principles (PDF)
Emblem
- 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 (PDF)
- National legislation on the use and protection of the emblem - Model law (PDF)
- Third Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 – Ratification kit (PDF)
Environment and warfare
- 1976 Convention on the prohibition of military or any hostile use of environmental modification techniques - Factsheet (PDF)
Fact finding commission
- The International humanitarian fact-finding commission – Facsheet (PDF)
- The International humanitarian fact-finding commission - Model declaration of acceptance (PDF)
Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols
- 1977 Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 – Ratification kit (PDF)
- Third Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 – Ratification kit (PDF)
- Geneva Conventions (Consolidation) Act – Model law (PDF)
- Geneva Conventions Act (for common law States) - Model law
- Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 - Factsheet (PDF)
Health
- Implementation of rules protecting the provision of health care in armed conflicts and other emergencies - Guidance tool (PDF)
- Respecting and protecting health care in armed conflicts and in situations not covered by international humanitarian law - Factsheet (PDF)
- Domestic normative frameworks for the protection of health care - Report
Internally displaced persons
International criminal law
- General principles of international criminal law – Factsheet (PDF)
- Universal jurisdiction over war crimes –Factsheet (PDF)
- Statute of the International Criminal Court – Ratification kit (PDF)
- Statute of the International Criminal Court – Factsheet (PDF)
- Statute of the International Criminal Court – Article 8 (PDF)
- Issues raised regarding the Rome Statute of the ICC by national Constitutional Courts, Supreme Courts and Councils of State – Compendium (PDF)
- International criminal justice: The institutions –Factsheet (PDF)
- War crimes under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and their source in IHL – Table (PDF)
International humanitarian law - general information
- What is international humanitarian law? - Factsheet (PDF)
- International humanitarian law and International human rights law: Similarities and differences - Factsheet (PDF)
International humanitarian law implementation
- Implementing international humanitarian law : from law to action - Factsheet (PDF)
- Guidelines for assessing the compatibility between national law and obligations under treaties of IHL - Factsheet (PDF)
- The exchange of information on national measures to implement IHL - Factsheet (PDF)
- ICRC database on national measures implementing international humanitarian law - Factsheet (PDF)
- Means of personal identification - Facsheet (PDF)
- National Committees for the implementation of international humanitarian law - Factsheet (PDF)
The missing
- Missing persons and their families - Factsheet (PDF)
- Guiding principles / Model law on the missing - Model law (PDF)
Penal repression
- Obligations in terms of penal repression - Factsheet (PDF)
- Penal repression: Punishing war crimes – Factsheet (PDF)
- Methods of incorporating punishment into criminal law - Factsheet (PDF)
- Command responsibility and failure to act – Factsheet (PDF)
- Criminal procedure – Factsheet (PDF)
- Judicial guarantees and safeguards – Factsheet (PDF)
- Cooperation in extradition and judicial assistance in criminal matters – Factsheet (PDF)
- Elements to render sanctions more effective – Factsheet (PDF)
- 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
Sexual violence
- Prevention and criminal repression of rape and other forms of sexual violence during armed conflicts - Factsheet (PDF)
Torture and other forms of ill -treatment
Use of force in law enforcement
Weapons
Anti-personnel mines
- 1997 Convention on the prohibition of anti-personnel mines and on their destruction – Factsheet (PDF)
- Model of legislation to implement the 1997 Convention on the prohibition of anti-personnel mines - Model law (PDF)
- Development of national legislation to implement the Convention on the prohibition of anti-personnel mines - Information kit (PDF)
Arms trade treaty
Chemical and biological weapons
- 1993 Chemical weapons convention - Factsheet (PDF)
- 1972 Convention on the prohibition of bacteriological weapons and their destruction – Factsheet (PDF)
- Toxic chemicals as weapons for law enforcement: a threat to life and international law? – Synthesis and summary (PDF)
- The biological and toxin weapons crimes act - Model law
Cluster munitions
- 2008 Convention on cluster munitions - Factsheet (PDF)
- 2008 Convention on cluster munitions - Ratification kit (PDF)
- 2008 Convention on cluster munitions - Model law (PDF)
Conventional weapons
- 1980 Convention on certain conventional weapons - Factsheet (PDF)
1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and its Protocols - Ratification kit (PDF)
Environment
- 1976 Convention on the prohibition of military or any hostile use of environmental modification techniques - Factsheet (PDF)