Hague Conventions
The term “Hague Conventions” describes the treaties and declarations that were adopted in The Hague and that contain rules regulating warfare. These include a series of international treaties and declarations that were adopted at two international peace conferences in 1890 and 1907 and the 1954 Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in the event of armed conflict.
The rules emanating from these Conventions – the Law of the Hague- governed the use of means and methods of warfare, conduct of hostilities and occupation, as opposed to the Law of Geneva – which primarily governed the protection of war victims.
See Treaties; Declaration of St Petersburg; Cultural property; Geneva Conventions; Law of the Hague; Law of Geneva; Additional Protocols;
DOCUMENTS
Regulation of warfare
Hague Convention (II) on the Laws and Customs of War on Land, 1899
Hague Convention on Hospital Ships, 1904
Hague Convention (III) on the Opening of Hostilites, 1907
Hague Convention (IV) on War on Land and its Annexed Regulations, 1907
Hague Convention (V) on Neutral Powers in case of War on Land, 1907
Hague Convention (VI) on Enemy Merchant Ships, 1907
Hague Convention (VII) on Conversion of Merchant Ships, 1907
Hague Convention (VIII) on Submarine Mines, 1907
Hague Convention (IX) on Bombardment by Naval Forces, 1907
Hague Convention (XI) on Restrictions of the Right of Capture, 1907
Hague Convention (XIII) on Neutral Powers in Naval War, 1907
Cultural property
Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954
CASES
Sweden, Report of the Swedish International Humanitarian Law Committee (Part 3.2.2.)
ICJ/Israel, Separation Wall/Security Fence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Part A., para. 89)
Germany, Government Reply on the Kurdistan Conflict (Para. 8)
BIBLIOGRAPHIC RESOURCES
EYFFINGER Arthur, “A Highly Critical Moment: Role and Record of the 1907 Hague Peace Conference”, in NetherlandsInternational Law Review, Vol. 54, No. 2, 2007, pp. 197-228
SCOTT James Brown, The Hague Peace Conferences of 1899 and 1907, Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1909, 2 Vol.