Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects (with Protocols I, II and III)
Geneva, 10 October 1980 Protocol IV,Vienna, 13 October 1995 Protocol II, as amended, Geneva, 3 May 1996 Objectives The aim of the Convention and its Protocols is to provide new rules for the protection of military personnel and, particularly, civilians and civilian objects from injury or attack under various conditions by means of fragments that cannot readily be detected in the human body by X-rays, landmines and booby traps, and incendiary weapons and blinding laser weapons. Key Provisions This Convention serves as an umbrella for protocols dealing with specific weapons. The Convention and its annexed Protocols apply in the situations common to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 for the Protection of War Victims, including any situation described in Additional Protocol I to these Conventions. Protocol I on Non-Detectable Fragments prohibits the use of any weapon the primary effect of which is to injure by fragments which in the human body escape detection by X-rays. Protocol II on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices was amended on 3 May 1996 to strengthen its provisions. It extends the scope of application to cover both international and internal armed conflicts; prohibits the use of non-detectable antipersonnel mines and their transfer; prohibits the use of non-self-destructing and non-selfdeactivitating mines outside fenced, monitored and marked areas; broadens obligations of protection in favour of peacekeeping and other missions of the United Nations and its agencies; requires States to enforce compliance with its provisions within their jurisdiction; and calls for penal sanctions in case of violation. Protocol III on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Incendiary Weapons prohibits, in all circumstances, making the civilian population as such, individual civilians or civilian objects, the object of attack by any weapon or munition which is primarily designed to set fire to objects or to cause burn injury to persons through the action of flame, heat or a combination thereof, produced by a chemical reaction of a substance delivered on the target. Protocol IV on Blinding Laser Weapons prohibits the use of laser weapons specifically designed, as their sole combat function or as one of their combat functions, to cause permanent blindness to unenhanced vision, that is to the naked eye or to the eye with corrective eyesight devices. The High Contracting Parties shall not transfer such weapons to any State or non-State entity. CONVENTION Entry into force: 2 December 1983 Status as at 15 June 2000: Signatories: 51 Contracting Parties: 79 PROTOCOL IV Entry into force: 30 July 1998 Status as at 15 June 2000: Contracting Parties: 49 PROTOCOL II, AS AMENDED Entry into force: 3 December 1998 Status as at 15 June 2000: Contracting Parties: 50 -- Posting oleh NM. WAHYU KUNCORO, SH ke ADVOKATKU pada 5/27/2009 07:29:00 PM
