Legal Framework of Genocide and Related crimes
International Humanitarian Law
Victims of Armed Conflict
- 1949 Geneva Convention (I) for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field
- 1949 Geneva Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea
- 1949 Geneva Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
- 1949 Geneva Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War
- 1977 Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I )
- 1977 Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol II)
- 2005 Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Adoption of an Additional Distinctive Emblem (Protocol III)
Means and Methods of Warfare
- 1972 Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction
- 1980 Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects (CCW )
- 1980 CCW Protocol (I) on Non-Detectable Fragments
- 1980 CCW Protocol (II) prohibiting Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices (as amended 1996)
- 1980 CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons
- 1993 Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction
- 1995 CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons
- 1997 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction
- 2001 Amendment to Article 1 of the CCW
- 2003 CCW Protocol (V) on Explosive Remnants of War
- 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions
International Court of Justice
International Tribunals
- 1945 Charter of the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg)
- 1946 Charter of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (Tokyo)