Key Documents

Key terms relating to treaty adherence (see pdf below) 

	Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions of 1949
	Tadic Case, ICTY, 2 October 1995
	The UN Security Council and the Rule of Law
	Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, "The Responsibility to Protect", 2001
	UN Security Council Resolution on Children in Armed Conflict, S/RES/1612 (2005)
	UN Security Council Resolution on Rape as a Weapon of War, S/RES/1820 (2008)
	ICRC Basic Rules on the 1949 Geneva Conventions and 1977 Additional Protocols
	List of Customary Rules of International Humanitarian Law (ICRC customary law study)
	Key terms relating to treaty adherence
	CICR, Liste des règles coutumières du droit international humanitaire
	Security Council Resolution 1612 paper on children in armed conflict
	Kampala Convention on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), African Union, Kampala, 23 October 2009 [signed by 17 states on that day, not yet in force - requires 15 ratifications]
	UN Security Council Resolution 1882 (2009), 4 August 2009, concerning children in armed conflict.
	Report of the Secretary-General of 26 March 2009 (S/2009/158), Children and Armed Conflict