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The following tables indicate the states that are party to the various Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. If a state has ratified, acceded, or succeeded to one of the treaties, the year of the original ratification is indicated.
The Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 were the first multilateral treaties that addressed the conduct of warfare and were largely based on the Lieber Code, which was signed and issued by US President Abraham Lincoln to the Union Forces of the United States on 24 April 1863, during the American Civil War [citation needed].
Hague Convention may refer to: Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 , among the first formal statements of the laws of war and war crimes in international law, signed July 1899 and October 1907 International Opium Convention , the first international drug control treaty, sometimes referred to as the Hague Convention of 1912, signed January 1912
For the purposes of the present Convention, the term 'cultural property' shall cover, irrespective of origin or ownership: (a) movable or immovable property of great importance to the cultural heritage of every people, such as monuments of architecture, art or history, whether religious or secular; archaeological sites; groups of buildings which, as a whole, are of historical or artistic ...
Meeting in the Hall of Knights in The Hague, during the congress (May 9, 1948). The Hague Congress or the Congress of Europe [1] was a conference that was held in The Hague from 7–11 May 1948 with 750 delegates participating from around Europe as well as observers from Canada and the United States of America.
The Convention on Certain Questions Relating to the Conflict of Nationality Laws (French: Convention concernant certaines questions relatives aux conflits de lois sur la nationalité) was a League of Nations convention adopted during the League of Nations Codification Conference, 1930 in The Hague. It was signed by many states, but ratified by ...
On the initiative of Tobias Asser, the First Diplomatic Session of the HCCH was convoked in 1893.Its aim was, and remains, to "work for the progressive unification of the rules of private international law", including by creating, and assisting in the implementation of, multilateral conventions that promote the harmonisation of the rules and principles of private international law (or conflict ...
Convention of 1 June 1970 on the Recognition of Divorces and Legal Separations; Convention of 4 May 1971 on the Law Applicable to Traffic Accidents; Convention of 18 March 1970 on the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil or Commercial Matters; Convention of 2 October 1973 concerning the International Administration of the Estates of Deceased Persons