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Landmines and International Humanitarian Law

Before the signing of the Mine Ban treaty in 1997, humanitarian organizations including the International Committee of the Red Cross analyzed the lanmines problem within an international humanitarian law framework. Following the successful adoption of the treaty, legal scholars and journals started publishing their analyses of the treaty's articles ant its important and unique place in the development of International Humanitarian Law. The key document relating landmines and International Humanitarian Law are included.
Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) 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)	Anti-personnel Landmines: Friend or Foe? Anti-personnel Landmines: Friend or Foe?	Mine Ban Treaty Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production, and Transfer of Antipersonnel Mines and on Their Destruction
Legal role of the International Committee of the Red Cross The Banning of Anti-Personnel Landmines: The Legal Contribution of the International Committee of the Red Cross 1955 - 1999	Social construction of the Mine Ban Treaty Ban Landmines! The Social Construction of the International Ban on Anti-Personnel Landmines 1991-2001	Commentary on the Mine Ban Treaty Commentary on Arms Control Treaties: The Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction

Before the signing of the Mine Ban treaty in 1997, humanitarian organizations including the International Committee of the Red Cross analyzed the lanmines problem within an international humanitarian law framework. Following the successful adoption of the treaty, legal scholars and journals started publishing their analyses of the treaty's articles ant its important and unique place in the development of International Humanitarian Law. The key document relating landmines and International Humanitarian Law are included.