Handbook of the international red cross and red crescent movement

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THER TEXTS OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW
I Declaration of St. Petersburg of 1868 to the Effect of Prohibiting the 
Use of Certain Projectiles in Wartime................................................ 331
II Extract from the Declaration concerning the Prohibition of Using 
Bullets which Expand or Flatten Easily in the Human Body
(International Peace Conference, The Hague, 1899) ......................... 333

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III Extract from The Hague Convention of 18 October 1907 
Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land 
(Convention No. IV) and Annexed Regulations................................ 334
IV Extract from The Hague Convention of 18 October 1907 
Respecting the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers and 
Persons in Case of War on Land (Convention No. V) ....................... 346
V Geneva Protocol of 17 June 1925 for the Prohibition of the Use in 
War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases and of
Bacteriological Methods of Warfare................................................... 348
VI The Hague Convention of 14 May 1954 for the Protection of
Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict ............................ 349
VII Regulations for the Execution of The Hague Convention of
14 May 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the 
Event of Armed Conflict..................................................................... 364
VIII Protocol to The Hague Convention of 14 May 1954 for the 
Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict ...... 375
IX Second Protocol to The Hague Convention of 14 May 1954 for 
the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict 378
X Convention of 10 April 1972 on the Prohibition of the 
Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological
(Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction............... 398
XI Convention of 10 December 1976 on the Prohibition of Military or 
Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques 403
XII 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 
and annexed Protocols I-V................................................................. 408
XIII Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production,
Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their 
Destruction (Extracts)........................................................................ 447
XIV Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production 
and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction ..... 454
XV Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Extracts) .......... 468
XVI Article 38 of the United Nations Convention of 20 November 1989 
on the Rights of the Child................................................................... 482
XVII Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on 
the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict................................ 483

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