International Crimes

Core Documents

African (Banjul) Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights

American Convention on Human Rights

American Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man

Arab Charter of Human Rights

European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Universal Documents

Treaties

Charter of the United Nations

Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea (Second Geneva Convention)

Geneva Convention on the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field (First Geneva Convention)

Geneva Convention on the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (Fourth Geneva Convention)

Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War (Third Geneva Convention)

Protocol relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (First Protocol to the Geneva Conventions)

Protocol relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-Armed Conflicts (Second Protocol to the Geneva Conventions)

UN Reports and Resolutions

International Law Commission Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts

Security Council Resolution 1422 (2002) regarding the deferral of cases to the ICC

International Courts and Tribunals

Charter of the International Military Tribunal (Nuremburg Charter)

Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

Statute of the Special Court for Sierra Leone

Draft Agreement Concerning the Prosecution of Crimes Committed during the Period of Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia Agreement) 

United Nations Transitional Administration for East Timor Regulation on the Establishment of Panels with Exclusive Jurisdiction Over Serious Criminal Offences 

Judgments of International Courts

International Court of Justice

Democratic Republic of the Congo v Belgium

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

Prosecutor v Celebici

Prosecutor v Dusko Tadic aka “Dule”

Prosecutor v Dusko Tadic aka “Dule” (Separate Opinion of Judge Abi-Saab)

Prosecutor v Krstić

International Military Tribunal (Nuremburg)

Trial of Major War Criminals (Goering et al)

Other Documents

National Decisions

R v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate and Others, ex parte Pinochet Ugarte (No. 3) (United Kingdom House of Lords)