Protection of women and children on armed conflicts

The book "Protection of Women and Children in Armed Conflicts" is a collection of provisions of International Law that aim to analyze the protection of women and minors in situations of armed conflict. The provisions listed in this handbook afford women protection against sexual violence. The purpose is to collect together the major International Law documents on the protection of women and children during armed conflicts in a one stop place where the documents were available for easy reference.
This edited handbook carefully collects the major documents on International Law, through the early practice after the Hague and the Geneva Conventions, the First World War as well as the Nuremberg and Tokyo International Military Tribunals up to the present. It also includes the statutes of the ad hoc Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, other special Courts and Tribunals as well as the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and its associated documents, including the elements of crimes that were adopted to assist the Court, and its Rules of Procedure and Evidence. The book also includes the main treaty provisions that provide the basis of the subject.
The purpose of quoting this collection of international binding texts is to make this book a useful tool, both for the theoretical scholar and for the practitioner, to find the provisions that protect civilians in the context of the international community in general.
The selection of the texts was made in the light of the influence that the specifics have on the international legal order and the international practice so that the reader is able to participate actively and with direct access to the sources that protect women and minors during the period of armed conflict.

1. General Orders No. 100: The Lieber Code (1863) 1

2. Hague Conference of 1899 - Hague Conventions I-IV
and Declarations I-III (1899) 5

3. Hague Conference of 1907 - Hague Conventions I-XIII (1907) 6

4. Report of the Commission on the Responsibility of the Authors of the First
World War and on Enforcement of Penalties (1919) 8

5. Treaty of Versailles (1919) 15

6. Nuremberg International Military Tribunal Statute and Rules of Procedure
and Evidence (1945) 17

7. Control Council Law No. 10, Punishment of Persons Guilty of War Crimes,
Crimes against Peace and against Humanity (1945) 18

8. Tokyo International Military Tribunal Statute and Rules of Procedure and
Evidence (1946) 20

9. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948) 21

10. Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions
(1949-1977) 24

10.1. Convention (I) for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded
and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field (1949) 24

10.2. Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick
and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea (1949) 24

10.3. Convention (III) Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (1949) 25

10.4. Convention (IV) Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time
of War (1949) 29

10.5. Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949,
and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts
(Protocol I) (1977) 34

10.6. Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949,
and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed
Conflicts (Protocol II) (1977) 38

11. Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes
and Crimes Against Humanity (1968) 42

12. International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime
of Apartheid (1974) 46

13. Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women
(CEDAW) (1979) 53

14. Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment (1984) 58

15. Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) 71

15.1. Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the
Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (2000) 78

15.2. Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale
of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography (2000) 83

16. International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia Statute (1993) 89

17. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Statute (ICTR) (1994) 95

18. International Law Commission Draft Code of Crimes against the Peace and
Security of Mankind (1996) 100

19. Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court including Kampala
Amendments (1998-2010) 108

20. International Criminal Court - Elements of Crimes (2010) 129

21. International Criminal Court - Rules of Procedure and Evidence (2002) 175

22. Regulation No. 2000/15 on the Establishment of Panels with Exclusive
Jurisdiction over Serious Criminal Offences, United Nations Transitional
Administration in East Timor, UNTAET/REG/2000/15 (2000) 202

23. Statute of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (2002) 212

24. Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone Statute (2012) 218

25. Law on the Establishment of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts
of Cambodia for the Prosecution of Crimes Committed during the Period
of Democratic Kampuchea, with inclusion of amendments as promulgated
on 27 October 2004 (NS/RKM/1004/006) (2004) 223

26. Special Tribunal for Lebanon Statute (2007) 230

27. International Convention for the Protection of
All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (2006) 235

28. International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT)
Statute (2010) 243

29. United Nations (UN) Security Council (SC) Resolutions 250

29.1. S/RES/1325 (2000) Adopted by the Security Council at its 4213th meeting,
on 31 October 2000 250

29.2. S/RES/1820 (2008) Adopted by the Security Council at its 5916th meeting,
on 19 June 2008 253

29.3. S/RES/1888 (2009) Adopted by the Security Council at its 6195th meeting,
on 30 September 2009 257

29.4. S/RES/1889 (2009) Adopted by the Security Council at its 6196th meeting,
on 5 October 2009 264

29.5. S/RES/1960 (2010) Adopted by the Security Council at its 6453rd meeting,
on 16 December 2010 269

29.6. S/RES/2106 (2013) Adopted by the Security Council at its 6984th meeting,
on 24 June 2013 274

29.7. S/RES/2122 (2013) Adopted by the Security Council at its 7044th meeting,
on 18 October 2013 280

29.8. S/RES/2242 (2015) Adopted by the Security Council at its 7533rd meeting,
on 13 October 2015 286

29.9. Resolution 2467 (2019) Adopted by the Security Council at its 8514th meeting,
on 23 April 2019 293

29.10. Resolution 2493 (2019) Adopted by the Security Council at its 8649th
meeting, on 29 October 2019 304



Annex

Cases and Judgments

I. International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) 308

II. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) 310

III. Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) 312

IV. Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) 312

V. Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) 313

VI. Special Panels for Serious Crimes (East Timor) 313

VII. International Criminal Court (ICC) 313

VIII. United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals 314