Oxford LibGuides: War, weapons & victims : legal responses: Sources: Treaties

Finding treaties, protocols & declarations

Holders of an Oxford SSO can find all the LNTS and UNTS treaties via a library within HeinOnline

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Holders of an Oxford SSO looking for a pre WW1 treaty (for example with citations to CTS or Parry) should try OHT (below)

Oxford Historical Treaties
Alternative names: OHT ; CTS

Oxford Historical Treaties (OHT) makes the full text of The Consolidated Treaty Series (CTS) available online, each treaty available as a PDF.
Parry's CTS is considered the most comprehensive collection of treaties (from all nations)for the period 1648 to 1919.

GCI Geneva Convention on Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field,1949
GCII Geneva Convention on Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked of Armed Forces at Sea, 1949
GCIII Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War, 1949
GCIV Geneva Convention on Civilians, 1949

Useful sites available to all with access to the internet:

Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Additional Protocols, and their Commentaries
Section of official website of International Committee of the Red Cross
IHL Treaties, States Parties and Commentaries : Topic Arrangement
Part of the ICRC official website. Has topic divisions: Victims of Armed Conflicts | Methods and Means of Warfare | Naval and Airwarfare | Cultural Property | Criminal Repression | Other treaties relating to IHL
ICRC national implementation of IHL
"This database provides documentation and commentaries concerning the implementation of international humanitarian law at the national level. The number of States included will steadily increase over time.
The content is drawn from information available to the ICRC Advisory Service on International Humanitarian Law. It illustrates possible approaches to incorporating IHL in national legislation but does not seek to provide a comprehensive picture of the situation."
Domestic law in IHL
Section of the ICRC's official website.
UNODA's Disarmament treaties database
Official website
Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict
Website of OHCHR. Citation: GA res. 3318 (XXIX), 29 UN GAOR Supp. (No. 31) at 146, UN Doc. A/9631

For the time poor?

The laws of armed conflicts : a collection of conventions, resolutions and other documents by Dietrich Schindler (Editor); Jirí Toman (Editor); Jirí Toman (Editor)
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link
ISBN: 9789004138186
Publication Date: 4th edn 2004
Print copy is at Internat 750 S336a4

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For first steps in commentary, holders of an Oxford SSO could try

Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law (MPEIL)
Alternative names: Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) ; Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law (MPEiPro)

The Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law combines the fully updated online edition of the Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) (originally published in print between 1991 and 2001) with the Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law (MPEiPro) which has been published (online only) since September 2019. The peer-reviewed articles in both works are updated and added to monthly.