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The Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 were the first multilateral treaties that addressed the conduct of warfare and were largely based on the Lieber Code, which was signed and issued by US President Abraham Lincoln to the Union Forces of the United States on 24 April 1863, during the American Civil War [citation needed].
The Hague Conference was first convened by Tobias Asser in 1893 in The Hague. In 1911, Asser received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in the field of private international law, and in particular for his achievements with respect to the HCCH. After World War II, the Hague Conference was established as an international organisation.
Convention of 1 June 1970 on the Recognition of Divorces and Legal Separations; Convention of 4 May 1971 on the Law Applicable to Traffic Accidents; Convention of 18 March 1970 on the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil or Commercial Matters; Convention of 2 October 1973 concerning the International Administration of the Estates of Deceased Persons
The Convention on Certain Questions Relating to the Conflict of Nationality Laws (French: Convention concernant certaines questions relatives aux conflits de lois sur la nationalité) was a League of Nations convention adopted during the League of Nations Codification Conference, 1930 in The Hague. It was signed by many states, but ratified by ...
Hague Convention may refer to: Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 , among the first formal statements of the laws of war and war crimes in international law, signed July 1899 and October 1907 International Opium Convention , the first international drug control treaty, sometimes referred to as the Hague Convention of 1912, signed January 1912
The Hague Convention of 1954 can be applied in principle, since Cambodia became a party to the Convention in 1962, before the Khmer Rouge came to power, and because Article 19 of the Convention stipulates that even in non-international armed conflicts, each party to the conflict is bound at least by the provisions on respect for cultural property.
The clause took its name from a declaration read by Friedrich Martens, [2] the delegate of Russia at the Hague Peace Conferences of 1899. [3] The Clause was introduced as compromise wording for the dispute between the Great Powers who considered francs-tireurs to be unlawful combatants subject to execution on capture and the smaller states who maintained that they should be considered lawful ...
The following tables indicate the states that are party to the various Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. If a state has ratified, acceded, or succeeded to one of the treaties, the year of the original ratification is indicated.