Search Tips
sorted by
30 shown of 86 entities
7 columns hidden
Title | Date added | Template | Original document | Paragraph text | Body | Document type | Thematics | Topic(s) | Person(s) affected | Year |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | This Treaty shall apply to all conventional arms within the following categories:
(a) Battle tanks;
(b) Armoured combat vehicles;
(c) Large-calibre artillery systems;
(d) Combat aircraft;
(e) Attack helicopters;
(f) Warships;
(g) Missiles and missile launchers; and
(h) Small arms and light weapons. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
|
| 2013 | ||
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 1. The Court shall have jurisdiction in respect of war crimes in particular when committed as part of a plan or policy or as part of a large-scale commission of such crimes. | United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court | International treaty |
|
| 1998 | ||
The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic 2018, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Art. 46. Reprisals against the wounded, sick, personnel, buildings or equipment protected by the Convention are prohibited. | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
|
| 2018 | ||
The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic 2018, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Art. 13. The present Convention shall apply to the wounded and sick belonging to the following categories: | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
|
| 2018 | ||
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | State Parties shall promote solidarity amongst Member States and support the conflict prevention and resolution initiatives that the Union may undertake in conformity with the Protocol establishing the Peace and Security Council. | African Union | Regional treaty |
|
| 2007 | ||
European Social Charter (Revised) 1996, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 1. In time of war or other public emergency threatening the life of the nation any Party may take measures derogating from its obligations under this Charter to the extent strictly required by the exigencies of the situation, provided that such measures are not inconsistent with its other obligations under international law. | Council of Europe | Regional treaty |
|
| 1996 | ||
The Arms Trade Treaty 2013, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Each State Party shall establish and maintain a national control system to regulate the export of ammunition/munitions fired, launched or delivered by the conventional arms covered under Article 2 (1), and shall apply the provisions of Article 6 and Article 7 prior to authorizing the export of such ammunition/munitions. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
|
| 2013 | ||
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998, para. 1b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 1. The Court shall apply: (b) In the second place, where appropriate, applicable treaties and the principles and rules of international law, including the established principles of the international law of armed conflict; | United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court | International treaty |
|
| 1998 | ||
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998, para. 2d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 2. For the purpose of this Statute, "war crimes" means: (d) Paragraph 2 (c) applies to armed conflicts not of an international character and thus does not apply to situations of internal disturbances and tensions, such as riots, isolated and sporadic acts of violence or other acts of a similar nature. | United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court | International treaty |
|
| 1998 | ||
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998, para. 2a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 2. For the purpose of paragraph 1: (a) "Attack directed against any civilian population" means a course of conduct involving the multiple commission of acts referred to in paragraph 1 against any civilian population, pursuant to or in furtherance of a State or organizational policy to commit such attack; | United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court | International treaty |
|
| 1998 | ||
Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Art 141. The situations provided for in Articles 2 and 3 shall give immediate effect to ratifications deposited and accessions notified by the Parties to the conflict before or after the beginning of hostilities or occupation. The Swiss Federal Council shall communicate by the quickest method any ratifications or accessions received from Parties to the conflict. | International Committee of the Red Cross | International treaty |
|
| 1949 | ||
Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Art 62. Each of the High Contracting Parties shall be at liberty to denounce the present Convention. The denunciation shall be notified in writing to the Swiss Federal Council, which shall transmit it to the Governments of all the High Contracting Parties. The denunciation shall take effect one year after the notification thereof has been made to the Swiss Federal Council. However, a denunciation of which notification has been made at a time when the denouncing Power is involved in a conflict shall not take effect until peace has been concluded, and until after operations connected with the release and repatriation of the persons protected by the present Convention have been terminated. The denunciation shall have effect only in respect of the denouncing Power. It shall in no way impair the obligations which the Parties to the conflict shall remain bound to fulfil by virtue of the principles of the law of nations, as they result from the usages established among civilized peoples, from the laws of humanity and the dictates of the public conscience. | International Committee of the Red Cross | International treaty |
|
| 1949 | ||
Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Art 58. The present Convention replaces the Xth Hague Convention of October 18, 1907, for the adaptation to Maritime Warfare of the principles of the Geneva Convention of 1906, in relations between the High Contracting Parties. | International Committee of the Red Cross | International treaty |
|
| 1949 | ||
Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Art 46. Each Party to the conflict, acting through its Commanders-in-Chief, shall ensure the detailed execution of the preceding Articles and provide for unforeseen cases, in conformity with the general principles of the present Convention. | International Committee of the Red Cross | International treaty |
|
| 1949 | ||
Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Art 8. The present Convention shall be applied with the cooperation and under the scrutiny of the Protecting Powers whose duty it is to safeguard the interests of the Parties to the conflict. For this purpose, the Protecting Powers may appoint, apart from their diplomatic or consular staff, delegates from amongst their own nationals or the nationals of other neutral Powers. The said delegates shall be subject to the approval of the Power with which they are to carry out their duties. The Parties to the conflict shall facilitate to the greatest extent possible the task of the representatives or delegates of the Protecting Powers. The representatives or delegates of the Protecting Powers shall not in any case exceed their mission under the present Convention. They shall, in particular, take account of the imperative necessities of security of the State wherein they carry out their duties. Their activities shall only be restricted as an exceptional and temporary measure when this is rendered necessary by imperative military necessities. | International Committee of the Red Cross | International treaty |
|
| 1949 | ||
The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic 2018, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Art. 61. Accessions shall be notified in writing to the Swiss Federal Council, and shall take effect six months after the date on which they are received. The Swiss Federal Council shall communicate the accessions to all the Powers in whose name the Convention has been signed, or whose accession has been notified. | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
|
| 2018 | ||
The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic 2018, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Art. 60. From the date of its coming into force, it shall be open to any Power in whose name the present Convention has not been signed, to accede to this Convention. | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
|
| 2018 | ||
The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic 2018, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Art. 59. The present Convention replaces the Conventions of 22 August 1864, 6 July 1906, and 27 July 1929, in relations between the High Contracting Parties. | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
|
| 2018 | ||
The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic 2018, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Art. 58. The present Convention shall come into force six months after not less than two instruments of ratification have been deposited. Thereafter, it shall come into force for each High Contracting Party six months after the deposit of the instrument of ratification. | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
|
| 2018 | ||
The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic 2018, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Art. 55. The present Convention is established in English and in French. Both texts are equally authentic. The Swiss Federal Council shall arrange for official translations of the Convention to be made in the Russian and Spanish languages. | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
|
| 2018 | ||
The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic 2018, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Art. 54. The High Contracting Parties shall, if their legislation is not already adequate, take measures necessary for the prevention and repression, at all times, of the abuses referred to under Article 53 | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
|
| 2018 | ||
The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic 2018, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Art. 48. The High Contracting Parties shall communicate to one another through the Swiss Federal Council and, during hostilities, through the Protecting Powers, the official translations of the present Convention, as well as the laws and regulations which they may adopt to ensure the application thereof. | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
|
| 2018 | ||
The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic 2018, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Art. 29. Members of the personnel designated in Article 25 who have fallen into the hands of the enemy, shall be prisoners of war, but shall be employed on their medical duties in so far as the need arises. | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
|
| 2018 | ||
The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic 2018, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Art. 14. Subject to the provisions of Article 12, the wounded and sick of a belligerent who fall into enemy hands shall be prisoners of war, and the provisions of international law concerning prisoners of war shall apply to them. | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
|
| 2018 | ||
The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic 2018, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Art. 13. The present Convention shall apply to the wounded and sick belonging to the following categories: (1) Members of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict, as well as members of militias or volunteer corps forming part of such armed forces. | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
|
| 2018 | ||
The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic 2018, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Art. 7. Wounded and sick, as well as members of the medical personnel and chaplains, may in no circumstances renounce in part or in entirety the rights secured to them by the present Convention, and by the special agreements referred to in the foregoing Article, if such there be. | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
|
| 2018 | ||
The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic 2018, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Art. 4. Neutral Powers shall apply by analogy the provisions of the present Convention to the wounded and sick, and to members of the medical personnel and to chaplains of the armed forces of the Parties to the conflict, received or interned in their territory, as well as to dead persons found. | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
|
| 2018 | ||
Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 1950, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 1. In time of war or other public emergency threatening the life of the nation any High Contracting Party may take measures derogating from its obligations under this Convention to the extent strictly required by the exigencies of the situation, provided that such measures are not inconsistent with its other obligations under international law. | Council of Europe | Regional treaty |
|
| 1950 | ||
The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic 2018, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Art. 62. The situations provided for in Articles 2 and 3 shall give immediate effect to ratifications deposited and accessions notified by the Parties to the conflict before or after the beginning of hostilities or occupation. The Swiss Federal Council shall communicate by the quickest method any ratifications or accessions received from Parties to the conflict. | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
|
| 2018 | ||
The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic 2018, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Art. 13. The present Convention shall apply to the wounded and sick belonging to the following categories: (5) Members of crews, including masters, pilots and apprentices, of the merchant marine and the crews of civil aircraft of the Parties to the conflict, who do not benefit by more favourable treatment under any other provisions in international law. | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
|
| 2018 |