Hague Convention

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1899 - 1954
The Hague Convention
(Mostly Avalon Project Documents from the Yale Law School)

First Peace Conference at The Hague: Signed -- 29 July 1899;
entry into force -- 4 September 1900.


• Hague I -- Pacific Settlement of International Disputes
  
• Hague II -- Laws and Customs of War on Land
• Hague III -- Adaptation to Maritime Warfare of Principles of Geneva Convention of 1864
  
• Hague IV -- Prohibiting Launching of Projectiles and Explosives from Balloons
  
  
• Declaration I - on the Launching of Projectiles and Explosives from Balloons
• Declaration II - on the Use of Projectiles the Object of Which is the Diffusion of Asphyxiating or Deleterious Gases
• Declaration III - on the Use of Bullets Which Expand or Flatten Easily in the Human Body
  
  
• Final Act of the International Peace Conference; July 29, 1899

Second Peace Conference at The Hague: Signed -- 18 October 1907;
entry into force -- 26 January 1910.



• <a href="http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/pacific.htm">Hague Convention I -- The Pacific Settlement of International Disputes </a>
• <a href="http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/hague072.htm">Hague Convention II -- The Limitation of Employment of Force for Recovery of Contract Debts</a>
• <a href="http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/hague03.htm">Hague Convention III -- The Opening of Hostilities</a>
• <a href="http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/hague04.htm">Hague Convention IV -- The Laws and Customs of War on Land</a>
• <a href="http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/hague05.htm">Hague Convention V-- The Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers and Persons in Case of War on Land</a>
• <a href="http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/hague06.htm">Hague Convention VI -- The Status of Enemy Merchant Ships at the Outbreak of Hostilities</a>
• <a href="http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/hague07.htm">Hague Convention VII -- The Conversion of Merchant Ships into War-Ships </a>
• <a href="http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/hague08.htm">Hague Convention VIII -- The Laying of Automatic Submarine Contact Mines </a>
• <a href="http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/hague09.htm">Hague Convention IX -- Bombardment by Naval Forces in Time of War</a>
• <a href ="http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/hague10.htm">Hague Convention X -- Adaptation to Maritime War of the Principles of the Geneva Convention</a>
• <a href="http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/hague11.htm">Hague Convention XI -- Certain Restrictions with Regard to the Exercise of the Right of Capture in Naval War</a>

  <a href="hague/hague11b.html">Hague Convention XII -- The Creation of an International Prize Court</a> (Never Ratified)

• <a href="http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/hague13.htm">Hague Convention XIII -- The Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers in Naval War</a>

Slavery Convention: Signed -- 25 September 1926;
Protocol signed -- 7 December 1953.



• <a href="hague/hague14.html">Convention and Protocol to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery</a>

Geneva Protocol to Hague Convention: Signed -- 17 June 1925;
Entry into force -- 8 February 1928.



• <a href="hague/hague13.html">Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare</a>

The Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict -- 14 May 1954;
Entry into force -- 7 August 1956



• <a href="http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=8450&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html">Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict </a> </body>