INTERNATIONAL LAWS (study guide) (explanatory essays under construction)

INTERNATIONAL LAWS (full text of relevant laws and other documents listed below):

GENERAL INTERNATIONAL LAW:

• Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (22 May 1969)
• Declaration on Principles of International Law Concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation Among States in Accordance with the Charter of the United Nations (24 October 1970)
• Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties between States and International Organizations or between International Organizations (21 March 1986)

INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW:

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights (10 December 1948)
• International Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (12 January 1951)
• Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (28 July 1951)
• Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons (28 September 1954)
• Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples (14 December 1960)
• International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (21 December 1965)
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (16 December 1966)
• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (16 December 1966)
• Declaration on Principles of International Law Concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation Among States in Accordance with the Charter of the United Nations (24 October 1970)
• International Covenant on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid (18 July 1976)
• Declaration on the Elimination of all Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief (25 November 1981)
• U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (20 November 1989)
• Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities (18 December 1992)
• Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Draft) (29 June 2006)

INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW (RULES OF WAR & BELLIGERENT OCCUPATION):

• Hague Conventions (IV) Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land (18 Oct. 1907)
• Geneva Convention (IV) Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (12 August 1949)
• Geneva Convention (Protocol I) Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (8 June1977)
• Geneva Convention (Protocol II) Relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (8 June 1977)

MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS PERTAINING TO INTERNATIONAL LAW

• Covenant of the League of Nations (1919, includes amendments upto 1924)
• Charter of the United Nations (26 June 1945)
• Legal Definition of Aggression (UN resolution 3314 (XXIX) (14 December 1974))
• Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (17 July 1998) (*NOTE - actually combines humanitarian and human rights law)
• Declaration of the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (8 Sept. 2001)
• International Court of Justice Ruling: Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (4 July 2004)

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