Act of 5 August 2003 on Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law

State:Belgium
Date: Aug. 5, 2003
Language:English
Status:Enacted
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Any other form of sexual violence - IAC
Any other form of sexual violence - NIAC
Any other form of sexual violence - crimes against humanity
Apartheid - crimes against humanity
Apartheid - war crimes
Assisting
Attacking or bombarding towns, villages, dwellings or buildings which are undefended and which are not military objectives - IAC
Attempt
Biological experiments - IAC
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
Civilian population - crimes against humanity
Command responsibility - national proceedings
Compelling a prisoner of war to serve in the forces of a hostile power - IAC
Compelling a protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile power - IAC
Complementarity
Conscripting children under 15 into armed forces or groups - NIAC
Conscripting children under 15 into the national armed forces - IAC
Crimes against humanity
Cruel treatment - NIAC
Declaring abolished, suspended or inadmissible in a court of law the rights and actions of the nationals of a hostile party - IAC
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
Denial of quarter - IAC
Denial of quarter - NIAC
Deportation of population - crimes against humanity
Destroying or seizing the enemy's property unless imperative - IAC
Destroying or seizing the enemy's property unless imperative - NIAC
Employing asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and all analogous liquids, materials or devices - IAC
Employing bullets which flatten or expand - IAC
Employing poison or poisoned weapons - IAC
Employing weapons, projectiles and materials and methods of warfare which are inherently indiscriminate - IAC
Employing weapons, projectiles and materials and methods of warfare which cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering - IAC
Enforced disappearance - crimes against humanity
Enforced prostitution - IAC
Enforced prostitution - NIAC
Enforced prostitution - crimes against humanity
Enforced sterilisation - IAC
Enforced sterilisation - NIAC
Enforced sterilisation - crimes against humanity
Enlisting children under 15 into armed forces or groups - NIAC
Enlisting children under 15 into the national armed forces - IAC
Enslavement - crimes against humanity
Entry into force
Extensive appropriation of property - IAC
Extensive destruction of property - IAC
Extermination - crimes against humanity
Forced pregnancy - IAC
Forced pregnancy - NIAC
Forced pregnancy - crimes against humanity
Forcible transfer of population - crimes against humanity
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
Genocide
Grave breaches - IAC
Humiliating and degrading treatment - IAC
Humiliating and degrading treatment - NIAC
Immunity
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
Imprisonment - crimes against humanity
Improper use of a flag of truce - IAC
Improper use of the emblems of the Geneva Conventions - IAC
Improper use of the flag of the United Nations - IAC
Improper use of the flag of the enemy - IAC
Improper use of the military insignia and uniform of the United Nations - IAC
Improper use of the military insignia and uniform of the enemy - IAC
Incitement - other crimes
Incitement to genocide
Individual criminal responsibility
Individual criminal responsibility - other form of assistance
Inhuman treatment - IAC
Intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group
Intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against buildings, material, medical units and transport using the emblems of the Geneva Conventions - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against buildings, material, medical units and transport using the emblems of the Geneva Conventions - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against individual civilians not taking part in hostilities - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against individual civilians not taking part in hostilities - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against installations, material, medical units or vehicles involved in humanitarian assistance - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against installations, material, units or vehicles involved in a peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against installations, material, units or vehicles involved in a peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against installations, material, units or vehicles involved in humanitarian assistance - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against personnel involved in a peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against personnel involved in a peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against personnel involved in humanitarian assistance - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against personnel involved in humanitarian assistance - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against personnel using the emblems of the Geneva Conventions - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against personnel using the emblems of the Geneva Conventions - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population - NIAC
Intentionally launching attacks that will cause environmental damage - IAC
Intentionally launching attacks that will cause incidental damage to civilian objects - IAC
Intentionally launching attacks that will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians - IAC
Intentionally starving as method of warfare - IAC
Killing members of the group
Killing or wounding a combatant who has laid down his arms and surrendered at discretion - IAC
Killing or wounding treacherously a combatant adversary - NIAC
Killing or wounding treacherously individuals belonging to the hostile nation or army - IAC
Knowledge of the attack - crimes against humanity
Manifestly unlawful order
Medical experiments - IAC
Medical experiments - NIAC
Murder - NIAC
Murder - crimes against humanity
Mutilation - IAC
Mutilation - other serious violations of laws and customs of war - NIAC
Mutilation - serious violation of Common Article 3 - NIAC
National penalties
National penalties - crimes against humanity
National penalties - genocide
National penalties - war crimes
Nationality jurisdiction
Nationality jurisdiction - national proceedings
Necessity
Negligence
Non-prejudice to national law
Not affording judicial guarantees to the passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions - NIAC
Omission
Ordering
Other defences - national proceedings
Other inhumane acts - crimes against humanity
Outrages upon personal dignity - IAC
Outrages upon personal dignity - NIAC
Passive personality jurisdiction
Persecution - crimes against humanity
Persecution against any identifiable collectivity on other grounds universally recognised as impermissible under international law - crimes against humanity
Persecution against any identifiable collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, or gender grounds - crimes against humanity
Persecution against any identifiable group on other grounds universally recognised as impermissible under international law - crimes against humanity
Persecution against any identifiable group on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, or gender grounds - crimes against humanity
Pillaging - IAC
Pillaging - NIAC
Protected persons
Providing means
Rape - IAC
Rape - NIAC
Rape - crimes against humanity
Repatriation - IAC
Reprisals
Residence Jurisdiction
Scientific experiments - IAC
Scientific experiments - NIAC
Serious violations of Common Article 3 - NIAC
Severe deprivation of physical liberty - crimes against humanity
Sexual slavery - IAC
Sexual slavery - NIAC
Sexual slavery - crimes against humanity
State privileges and immunities
Statute of limitations
Superior orders - national proceedings
Superior responsibility - national proceedings
Taking of hostages - IAC
Taking of hostages - NIAC
Territorial jurisdiction
Torture - IAC
Torture - NIAC
Torture - crimes against humanity
Transferring own civilians into occupied territory - IAC
Transferring population of an occupied territory - IAC
Universal jurisdiction
Unlawful confinement - IAC
Unlawful deportation - IAC
Unlawful transfer - IAC
Using children under 15 to participate actively in hostilities - IAC
Using children under 15 to participate actively in hostilities - NIAC
Utilising the presence of a civilian or other protected person to render certain points, areas or military forces immune from military operations - IAC
War crimes
Widespread or systematic attack - crimes against humanity
Wilful killing - IAC
Wilfully causing great suffering - IAC
Wilfully causing serious injury to body - IAC
Wilfully causing serious injury to health - IAC
Wilfully depriving a prisoner of war of the rights of fair and regular trial - IAC
Wilfully depriving a protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial - IAC